Her efforts paid off when

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Where does Father's Day come from? The origin of Father's Day is credited to a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, whose widowed father was raising six children alone in Spokane, Washington. Dodd began advocating for an equivalent to Mother's Day for fathers in 1909. With support from local churches, the YMCA, store owners and government officials, she rallied support for her cause.


Her efforts paid off when Washington state celebrated the brazil whatsapp resource first statewide Father's Day on June 19, 1910. The second version of the origin of Father's Day claims that the idea was proposed on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia, by a woman named Grace Golden Clayton, who suggested celebrating fathers during a church service of the local Methodist minister.


She came up with the idea after a local mining disaster in West Virginia in December 1907 that killed 361 people. In 1916, the Father's Day movement was endorsed by President Woodrow Wilson, who signaled a flag-raising in Spokane via a telegraph signal from Washington, D.C. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge encouraged state governments to observe Father's Day.