The first official US holidays were declared by Congress on June 28, 1870. New Years Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day were all declared holidays in the first act. George Washington's Birthday was declared a holiday in 1871.
According to Title 5 of the US Code, neither Congress or the President has the authority to declare a holiday that must be enforced by the states - Federal holidays are only applicable to Federal employees and the District of Columbia.
Each state chooses which holidays it will recognize.
QUOTE:
"The act of June 28, 1870, which was apparently prompted by a memorial drafted
by local "bankers and business men," provided that New Year's Day, Independence
Day, Christmas Day, and "any day appointed or recommended by the President of the
United States as a day of public fasting or thanksgiving [were] to be holidays within the District." This legislation was drafted "to correspond with similar laws of States
around the District,"3 and "in every State of the Union."
senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/Federal_Holidays.pdf
It is not a federal holiday. See the following link for federal holidays: http://www.opm.gov/Operating_Status_Schedules/fedhol/2007.asp
Christmas was declared a United States Federal holiday in 1870.
== == Christmas was declared a national holiday by Ulysses S. Grant in 1870. It's Jesus' Birthday it has to be a holiday.
It never was because it's not a national holiday. Christmas is the only national holiday celebrated.
Christmas wasn't declared a federal holiday in the USA until June 26, 1870.
Christmas was declared a United States Federal holiday in 1870.
President Ulysses S. Grant declared Christmas an official national holiday in 1870.
Christmas was declared a United States Federal holiday in 1870.
Christmas was declared a United States Federal holiday in 1870.
Christmas was declared a federal holiday in 1870.
No U.S. president has ever declared Hanukkah a national holiday.
Yes Christmas is national holiday and it is in any other religion
1870