How the 'Mother of Thanksgiving' Lobbied Lincoln

How the 'Mother of Thanksgiving' Lobbied Lincoln

Secretary of State William Seward wrote it and Abraham Lincoln issued it, but much of the credit for the Thanksgiving Proclamation should probably go to a woman named Sarah Josepha Hale. 

A prominent writer and editor, Hale had written the children's poem “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” originally known as “Mary's Lamb,” in 1830 and helped found the American Ladies Magazine, which she used a platform to promote women's issues. In 1837, she was offered the editorship of Godey's Lady Book, where she would remain for more than 40 years, shepherding the magazine to a circulation of more than 150,000 by the eve of the Civil War and turning it into one of the most influential periodicals in the country. 

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