which would allow states to celebrate the birth of President Abraham Lincoln and Washington on the same day. Lincoln, who was ...

Kentucky has public holidays for the birthdays of Washington; Lincoln; Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy; and Franklin D. Roosevelt. In Alabama, the third Monday in February is ...

Later Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention and was unanimously elected as the first President in 1789. Lincoln was elected as the sixteenth President in 1860 and was the war-time ...

The official designation is as Washington’s Birthday, although it has come to be known informally as Presidents Day. Arguments have been made to honor President Lincoln as well because his birthdate ...

Last week, we celebrated Idaho Day — the day President Abraham Lincoln declared Idaho a territory of the United States on March 4, 1863. This comes after celebrating Lincoln’s birthday ...

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual.

Trump is far from the first president to indulge in such ideas. After Washington and the rest of ... of his greatest successor, Abraham Lincoln, and one the office again sank into soon after ...

(and later president) Joe Biden. In mid-February 1981, President Ronald Reagan placed a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Opinion:Meet the people who run the White House.