On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson 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.

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.”

                  
SANDY KOZEL

           
SANDY KOZEL

Rare photograph of Roosevelt in a wheelchair, with
Fala and Ruthie Bie, the daughter of caretakers at
his Hyde Park estate, February 1941.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945),

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd
president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his
death in 1945.

He is the longest-serving U.S. president and the only one to
have served more than two terms.

On April 12, at the Little White House, he sat for a portrait by
painter Elizabeth Shoumatoff. He told Shoumatoff, "I have a
terrific headache."

At 3:35 p.m. that day, his doctor Howard Bruenn diagnosed
a massive intracerebral hemorrhage and pronounced him
dead at age 63.