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