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What president declared Thanksgiving a holiday?
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What president declared Thanksgiving a holiday?

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Answer: President Abraham Lincoln

Explanation: President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday on the last Thursday in November.

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we credit President Abraham Lincoln for declaring Thanksgiving a federal holiday in 1863, during the American Civil War. He called it a national day of “Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens,” to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November.

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