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    Woodrow Wilson

    President of the United States from 1913 to 1921

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  1. Wilson's mother, Janet Woodrow Wilson, known as Jessie, was born in Carlisle, England, but raised in America. She was a warm and loving companion to Wilson's father and a devoted mother to her four children—Woodrow, his two older sisters, and a younger brother.

  2. Nov 16, 2009 · On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson issues a presidential proclamation that officially establishes the first national Mother’s Day holiday to celebrate America’s mothers. The idea...

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  3. May 9, 2017 · On this day in 1914, responding to an act of Congress, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Mother’s Day as a national holiday. He called on Americans to show the flag to honor those mothers...

  4. Wilson's maternal grandfather, the Reverend Thomas Woodrow, moved from Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, to Carlisle, Cumbria, England, before migrating to Chillicothe, Ohio, in the late 1830s. [3] Joseph met Jessie while she was attending a girl's academy in Steubenville, and the two married on June 7, 1849.

  5. Nov 13, 2020 · President Woodrow Wilson, on Saturday, May 9, 1914, made the official announcement proclaiming Mother's Day a national observance to be held each year on the 2nd Sunday of May, thereby making May 10, 1914 the first national Mother’s Day.

  6. Secretary of State. Woodrow Wilson, Proclamation 1268Mother's Day, 1914 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/353432.

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