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FIRST MOTHER’S DAY PROCLAIMED IN 1914

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On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson (above) issued a
presidential proclamation that officially established the first
national Mother’s Day holiday to celebrate America’s mothers.

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 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.”

9 May 1914 – Second Sunday in May Proclaimed as Mother's Day - Samoa Global News

In 1908 the first Mother's Day was celebrated in Grafton, West Virginia. Anna Jarvis held a service of commemoration for her mother. Jarvis would campaign to have Mother's Day a National Holiday