Mother's Day

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In 1912, Anna Jarvis trademarked the phrase "Second Sunday in May, Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis, Founder", and created the Mother's Day International Association.<ref>Compare footnote 51 in {{cite book
| last1                 = LaRossa
| first1                = Ralph
| title                 = The Modernization of Fatherhood: A Social and Political History
| url                   = https://archive.org/details/modernizationoff00laro
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| publisher             = University of Chicago Press
| date      = 1997
| page                  = [https://archive.org/details/modernizationoff00laro/page/272 272]
| isbn                  = 978-0226469041
| access-date            = 28 April 2016
| quote                 = Technically, at least, Mother's Day was 'owned' by Jarvis. She managed not only to incorporate the Mother's Day International Association but also to register 'Second Sunday in May, Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis, Founder,' as the organization's trademark.
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</ref> She specifically noted that "Mother's" should "be a singular possessive, for each family to honor its own mother, not a plural possessive commemorating all mothers in the world."<ref name="vancouversun">{{Cite news | url = http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=c942370c-cdbb-43b2-af59-71ad4b546854 | title = Mother's Day creator likely 'spinning in her grave' | author = Louisa Taylor, Canwest News Service | work = The Vancouver Sun | location = Canada | date = 11 May 2008 | access-date = 7 July 2008 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080514130408/http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=c942370c-cdbb-43b2-af59-71ad4b546854 | archive-date = 14 May 2008 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> This is also the spelling used by U.S. President [[Woodrow Wilson]] in his 1914 presidential proclamation, by the U.S. Congress in relevant bills,<ref name="vote274">[http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2008-274 House Vote No. 274 (7 May 2008)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081122220858/http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2008-274 |date=22 November 2008 }} H. Res. 1113: Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother's Day (Vote On Passage)</ref><ref name="vote275">[http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2008-275 House Vote No. 275 (7 May 2008)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081122104652/http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2008-275 |date=22 November 2008 }} Table Motion to Reconsider: H RES 1113 Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother's Day</ref> and by various U.S. presidents in their proclamations concerning Mother's Day.<ref>Presidential proclamations from The American Presidency Project:
* [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14859 71 – Proclamation 2083 – Mother's Day Proclamation], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], 3 May 1934.
* [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=24097 Proclamation 3535 Mother's Day, 1963] [[John F. Kennedy]], 26 April 1963.
* [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=75197 Proclamation 3583 – Mother's Day, 1964] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], 23 April 1964
* [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=834 Proclamation 4437 – Mother's Day, 1976], [[Gerald Ford]], 5 May 1976.
* [http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/042688c.htm Proclamation 5801 – Mother's Day, 1988] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924111822/http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/042688c.htm |date=24 September 2015 }}, [[Ronald Reagan]], 26 April 1988.
* [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=1845 Proclamation 6133 – Mother's Day, 1990], [[George H. W. Bush|George Bush]], 10 May 1990
* [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=62428 Proclamation 6559 – Mother's Day, 1993], [[Bill Clinton]], 7 May 1993.
* [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=77285 Proclamation 8253 – Mother's Day, 2008], [[George W. Bush]], 8 May 2008.</ref>