President's Day! Know your Presidents!

Washington's Birthday is the official name designated to what many of us know as President's Day. During the month of February the birthday of two of our greatest President's takes place. Both George Washington who was born on Feb. 22nd and Abraham Lincoln born on Feb. 12th.

However, Washington's birthday has been publicly celebrated since he was in office, before Abraham Lincoln was even born. Much of the debate over the name of the holiday springs from the fact that state's can follow their own holidays how they see fit and many of them chose to also honor Lincoln, calling the celebration President's Day.

It was in 1968 that the term President's Day came up for legal consideration in the Congress but was shot down, though the holiday was moved to fall between the two President's birthdays. Again in the 1980's there was a resurgence of the term with advertisers which solidfied the holiday name in American culture.

Here is a list of all of the President's that I found on the internet! A fun thing to do with the kids is to memorize all the Presidents! It has been fun for me and my husband to do this. We often play games around quizzing each with random numbers and see who can guess the quickest President that number represents!

The Presidents

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century

21st Century