Saw this on moblogic, Why Tuesday? is about fixing our voting system. They have a lot of videos of congressmen being stumped about why we vote on Tuesdays. I didn't know the answer either.
From moblogic: "On January 23, 1845, when there were only 26 states, and before slavery had been abolished, Congress picked the day for Americans to vote for president. The United States was a primarily agrarian society. Americans, who traveled at the time by horse and buggy, needed a day or longer to get to the county seat and time to get back, without interfering with the Sabbath. So that left Tuesday and Wednesday, but Wednesday was market day in many communities. So, Tuesday it was. Why November? The harvest was over. Why the Tuesday after the first Monday in November? To make certain that Election Day didn’t conflict with meetings of the Electoral College."
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