1914-Woodrow Wilson

In 1907, a woman from Philadelphis, named Anna Jarvis, started a campaigh for National Mother's Day to be held on the second day f May in honor of her mother. Her mother who started the idea died in l905. She gave her daughter the idea after she organized a "Mother's Friendship Day: to heal lingering wounds of the Civil War.

Finally in l914, Woodrow Wilson made an official pronouncement proclaiming Mother's Day a National Holiday. West Va. was the first state to recognize the holiday which spread beyond the USA to countries such as Australia and Denmark which also celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May.