Posts Tagged ‘1789’

Reading Time: 2 minutesGEORGE WASHINGTON’S THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION – 1789 The first President of the United States began a Presidential tradition of making a Thanksgiving proclamation, following those issued previously by the Continental Congress between 1777 and 1784. At the request of the House and Senate, and in celebration of the new U.S. Constitution, Washington on October 3, 1789,…