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Which president declared Thanksgiving a permanent holiday?

Retry Correct Incorrect Although the Library of Congress noted that George Washington was the first to declare Thursday, November 26, a public day of Thanksgiving in 1789, Thomas Jefferson declined to carry on this tradition in 1801 because he felt it undermined the separation of church and state. However, Abraham Lincoln would eventually declare the last Thursday of November a national Thanksgiving holiday in 1863 as a way to promote peace and harmony during the Civil War.

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Which president declared Thanksgiving a permanent holiday?

• Thomas Jefferson
• Theodore Roosevelt
• George Washington
• Abraham Lincoln