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Who began the observance of Thanksgiving in November?
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- katlady927Lv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
actually it was Abe Lincoln Franklin Roosevelt changed the date in Nov but Lincoln started the Nov. tradition in 1863
At the beginning of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency, Thanksgiving was not a fixed holiday; it was up to the President to issue a Thanksgiving Proclamation to announce what date the holiday would fall on. However, Thanksgiving was always the last Thursday in November because that was the day President Abraham Lincoln observed the holiday when he declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.
Source(s): Many Americans at the time believed that the Pilgrims chose the last Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving, but that is not the case. Although Americans had celebrated days of thanksgiving before, it was not until 1863 when President Lincoln began the observance of Thanksgiving in November - Anonymous1 decade ago
Franklin D. Roosevelt (former president)
1939 he declared that Thanksgiving would be the next-to-last Thursday of November rather than the last.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving