Why the first Tuesday

Why is the first Tuesday in November Election Day in the United States? I’m glad I asked. From Wikipedia (note numbers omitted):

By 1792, federal law permitted each state legislature to choose presidential electors any time within a 34-day period before the first Wednesday in December. A November election was convenient because the harvest would have been completed but the most severe winter weather, impeding transportation, would not yet have arrived, while the new election results also would roughly conform to a new year. Tuesday was chosen as Election Day so that voters could attend church on Sunday, travel to the polling location, usually in the county seat, on Monday, and vote before Wednesday, which was usually when farmers would sell their produce at the market.

And now I am imagining Stephen Colbert reading this explanation aloud. Maybe it’s time for a change? Or at least for a federal holiday?