Sonora founded Father’s Day in Spokane, Washington, in 
1910. She was inspired by the example of her devoted
dad, William Jackson Smart, a Civil War veteran.

In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first
presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating
the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day.

Six years later, the day was made a permanent national
holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law
in 1972.

William Jackson Smart, the inspiration for Father’s Day.

Schick was founded in 1926 by Jacob Schick as the Magazine
Repeating Razor Company. In the same year, Schick introduced
its highly successful single-blade safety razor system, which
stored twenty blades in a steel injector. Jacob Schick sold the
company in 1928 and founded another company bearing his
name, in order to market his newly invented electric shavers.

1958

Jacob Schick
(September 16, 1877 – July 3, 1937)

He is called the father of electric razors.

Father’s Day has been celebrated on March 19 as Saint Joseph’s
Day since the Middle Ages. In the United States, Father’s Day
was founded by Sonora Smart Dodd, and celebrated on the third
Sunday of June for the first time in 1910. The day is held on
various dates across the world, and different regions maintain
their own traditions of honoring fatherhood.