28, 1789, the first Federal Congress passed a resolution asking President George ... Almanac." Thanksgiving wasn't a federal government holiday in the early years of the U.S. Thomas Jefferson ...

Thanksgiving is ... The Signing of the Constitution of the United States, with George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson at the Constitutional Convention of 1787; oil painting ...

Thanksgiving was technically first celebrated as a United States holiday under George Washington in 1789, which was meant to unite the new nation after the end of the Revolutionary War. This was ...

The three writers are Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain and George Washington. “My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite — only a sense of ...