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 ...

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which would allow states to celebrate the birth of President Abraham Lincoln and Washington on the same day. Lincoln, who was born on Feb. 12, 1809, was another major influential president for his ...

Eventually, the holiday included honoring President Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday is Feb. 12. The position of the holiday between the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln gave rise to the popular ...

Most often, it’s Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War president who sometimes outranks even Washington among historians for keeping the Union intact. Fourteen states have a separate holiday just for ...

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

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 ...

In the only state named after a president, lawmakers in Washington ... Oregon combined two state holidays dedicated to Abraham Lincoln and George Washington into a single Presidents Day in 1985 ...

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 ...

During his first six weeks in office, President Donald Trump has worked to tear down the federal government and attack ...

(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.