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The almost-forgotten Thanksgiving: a weird history of Thanksgiving proclamations
The Thanksgiving holiday, a staple of the waning autumn days and a herald of upcoming Christmas festivities, has stood as a pillar of American culture since before the country’s founding.
And in nearly every year since the country’s founding, the sitting president has taken on the mantle of “proclaiming” the national holiday.
But despite its importance to the American holiday lineup, Thanksgiving was almost completely forgotten one year by none other than President Andrew Johnson, Tennessee’s own, in 1865.
In Johnson’s defense, many things were occurring in 1865: the Civil War came to an end, slavery was abolished, and Johnson’s former running mate, President Abraham Lincoln, was assassinated, resulting in Johnson ascension to the presidency in mid-April.
There were two Thanksgivings in 1939. What Erie, the nation thought of FDR's move
This story first appeared in the Nov. 28, 2019, edition of the Erie Times-News.
The map on the front page of the Erie Daily Times on Nov. 23, 1939, showed the states celebrating Thanksgiving that day and states that would celebrate a week later.
President Franklin Roosevelt had proclaimed that Thanksgiving that year would be celebrated a week early, on the next-to-last Thursday of the month.
The holiday had been celebrated the final Thursday of November since Abraham Lincoln's day. But retailers complained that the traditional date abbreviated the Christmas shopping season that followed and cut into sales.
So, in 1939, Roosevelt proclaimed that Nov. 23, not Nov. 30, would be Thanksgiving day.
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