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NATIONAL THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATIONS
(not all are in November!)

The first national Thanksgiving Proclamations were those
issued by the Continental Congress between 1777 and 1784.
Click HERE for the Proclamations of the Continental Congress.

From 1785 to 1788, there were no national Thanksgiving Proclamations. 
George Washington issued the first Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1789.

PRESIDENTIAL THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATIONS

1789-1815 George Washington, (John Adams), James Madison
1816-1861 There were no Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamations!
1862-1869 Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant
1870-1879 Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes
1880-1889 Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison
1890-1899 Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley
1900-1909 William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft
1910-1919 William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson
1920-1929 Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover
1930-1939 Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt
1940-1949 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman
1950-1959 Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower
1960-1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon
1970-1979 Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter
1980-1989 Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush
1990-1999 George Bush, William J. Clinton
2000-2009 William J. Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama



Updated 18 May, 2005