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Well the answer is quite simple, as President Abraham Lincoln was the famous American president who declared a nationwide Thanksgiving Day throughout the Civil War, on October 3, 1863.
The President inquired that the territory gives thanks for the Union on the last Thursday of November. That made the first factual nationwide after summer Thanksgiving on Thursday, November 26, 1863, identifying a long-standing New England custom of putting the vacation on the fourth Thursday in November.
He did it partially to assist soothe the nationwide feeling, which was tired of the Civil War. He announced Thanksgiving afresh for November 23, 1864. In 1865, his successor, Andrew Johnson, announced a Thanksgiving for December 7, 1865, and leaders conventionally announced a Thanksgiving for every after summer since. (Andrew Johnson was the first to give government workers the day off, producing it a lawful holiday.)
In 1941, Congress passed an account, and FDR marked it, that repaired the designated day as the fourth Thursday in November. FDR tried to precede the vacation to the third Thursday in November, but Congress enacted a regulation to rectify the designated day at the fourth Thursday in November, therefore producing it an "official" holiday. On November 26, 1941, FDR marked the bill.
See the Related Link for a entire time line of the annals of Thanksgiving.
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