Harold Stonebridge Fischer

Harold Stonebridge Fischer

Founder of "President's Day" holiday in the United States

📍 Chicago, Illinois USA

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Harold Stonebridge "Hal" Fischer was an American activist, composer, and poet. He was the founder of the "President's Day National Committee" which urged the observance of what he called Presidents' Day in the United States, spent over twenty years lobbying the U.S. Congress for the formal creation of the holiday, and successfully lobbied all U.S. governors to enact the holiday at the state level.

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