Ocupation: 1st U.S. President
Life: February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799
Birthday: February 22
Death: December 14
Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.
source: George Washington (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.119
topic: Thanksgiving, God, Prayer, Proclamation, Thanksgiving Day, Christian Morality, Christian Thanksgiving, God And Country, Founding Fathers Christian, Almighty God, Affording, Thanksgiving Christian, Thanksgiving Grateful, Great Thanksgiving