Campaigning for Father’s Day
- At age 16, Sonora Louise Smart Dodd lost her mother, and her father was left to raise Dodd and her five younger brothers alone.
- In 1909, Dodd was listening to a Mother's Day sermon and realized the need for a day to celebrate fathers. She drew up a petition for the first Father's Day.
- She gained only two signatures, but in the process convinced several local church communities to participate.
- The celebration started Dodd's nearly life-long mission of promoting Father's Day for national status.
- Dodd traveled the United States over the next half-century, campaigning for the cause.
- Father's Day was finally recognized in 1972 when President Richard Nixon signed the resolution into law.*
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