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Document 261587
CALVIN COOLIDGE. Rare Printed Proclamation
signed: "Calvin Coolidge" as President, 1p, 8x13.
Washington, 1928 October 23. Countersigned in type: "Frank B.
Kellogg" as Secretary of State. President Coolidge proclaims Thursday,
November 29, 1928 "as a day of general thanksgiving and prayer...." In
part: "The season again approaches when it has been the custom for
generations to set apart a day of thanksgiving for the blessings which the Giver
of all good and perfect gifts has bestowed upon us during the year. It is most
becoming that we should do this, for the goodness and mercy of God which have
followed us through the year deserve our grateful recognition and
acknowledgment...our industries have flourished; our commerce has increased; wages
have been lucrative, and comfort and contentment have followed the undisturbed
pursuit of honest toil...." President George Washington set aside Thursday,
November 26, 1789, to thank God for the newly formed government. The first
national Thanksgiving Day proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln.
It was continued by every President until Franklin D. Roosevelt. Thanksgiving
Day is now a federal legal public holiday observed every year on the fourth
Thursday of November and no presidential proclamation is necessary. Two weeks
after Coolidge issued his Thanksgiving Proclamation, his Secretary of Commerce,
Herbert Hoover was elected as the nation's 31st President. Slightly creased.
Fine condition.
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