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    4. On this day, May 9th 1914, which president issued a presidential proclamation that officially established the first national Mother's Day holiday?
    On this day, May 9th 1914, which president issued a presidential proclamation that officially established the first national Mother's Day holiday?

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      Woodrow Wilson
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        The idea for a "Mother's Day" is credited by some to Julia Ward Howe (1872) and by others to Anna Jarvis (1907), who both suggested a holiday dedicated to a day of peace. Many individual states celebrated Mother's Day by 1911, but it was not until Woodrow Wilson lobbied Congress in 1914 that Mother's Day was officially set on the second Sunday of every May. In his first Mother's Day proclamation, Wilson stated that the holiday offered a chance to "[publicly express] our love and reverence for the mothers of our country."
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        On May 9, 1914 President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring the first national Mother's Day as a day for American citizens to show the flag in honor of those mothers whose sons had died in war
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          I'm sure then that Wilson wasn't a jehovah's witness.
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