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 The history of Fathers Day goes like in 1909. Spokane Washington Sonora Smart Dodd was listening to a Mothers Day sermon. The lecture inspired her to have a special day dedicated to her father William Jackson Smart who had brought her up and her siblings single handedly after their mother died. She could realize the greatness of her father and wanted to let him know how deeply she was touched by his sacrifices courage selflessness and love. She held the first Fathers Day celebration on 19th of June 1910 on the birthday of her father and the idea soon caught on and in 1924 President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Fathers Day on the petition sent to him by Dodd on the acceptance of fatherhood. In 1926 a National Fathers Day Committee was formed in New York City. However it was thirty years later that a Joint Resolution of Congress gave recognition to Fathers Day. Another 16 years passed before President Richard Nixon established the third Sunday of June as a permanent national observance day of Fathers Day in 1972 in the honor of all good fathers that contribute as much to the family as a mother in their own ways. Even before Dodd came into the picture Dr. Robert Webb of West Virginia is believed to have conducted the first Fathers Day service in 1908 at the Central Church of Fairmont. However it was the colossal efforts of Dodd the devoted daughter of the Civil War veteran who refused to remarry for the sake of his 6 children and took upon himself all the duties love and care of a mother that eventually led it to a national observance and It was also during a sermon in 1909 that Sonora Smart Dodd became inspired by Mothers Day after the death of her mother Sonora and her siblings were raised by their father William Jackson Smart a Civil War veteran. Sonora wanted to show how thankful she was to her father and because William was born in June she worked to have and in 1924 President Coolidge recommended that Fathers Day become a national holiday. President Johnson designated the third Sunday of June to be Fathers Day in 1966. It was not until 1972 that President Nixon instituted Fathers Day as a national observance At about the same time in various towns and cities across America other people were beginning to celebrate a Fathers Day. Some accounts credit Mrs. Charles Clayton of West Virginia as the founder of Fathers Day although most histories give credit to Mrs. Dodd. In early times wearing flowers was a traditional way of celebrating Fathers Day. Mrs. Dodd favored the red rose to honor a father still living while a white flower honored a deceased dad. J.H. Berringer who also held Fathers Day celebrations in Washington State as early as 1912 chose a white lilac as the Fathers Day Flower. In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Fathers Day but it never became official until 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson signed the presidential proclamation that set aside the 3rd Sunday of June as Fathers Day.

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