Sonora Smart Dodd, born in Creston, Wash., was a daughter of Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, and she was so inspired by her father’s selflessness in raising six children by himself, she proposed a celebration of fathers.
Dodd initially suggested June 5, the anniversary of her father's death, but there wasn’t enough time to make the arrangements so the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June. The first June Father's Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910, in Spokane, Wash., at the Spokane YMCA.
In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father's Day. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the third Sunday of June as Father's Day. President Richard Nixon signed the law which finally made it permanent in 1972.
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