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In February 1903, U.S. Senator Hamilton Kean spoke against Arizona's statehood. He said Mormons who fled from Idaho to Mexico would return to the U.S. and mix in the politics of Arizona. [44] In 1912, Arizona almost entered the Union as part of New Mexico in a Republican plan to keep control of the U.S. Senate. The plan, while accepted by most ...
Article 2 titled the Declaration of Rights and is the state's equivalent of the Bill of Rights. At the time the Arizona Constitution was adopted, the United States Supreme Court had not yet ruled that the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution was applicable to or binding upon the states. In 2024, Article 2 was amended to contain an ...
The Territory of Arizona, commonly known as the Arizona Territory, was a territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863, [1] until February 14, 1912, when the remaining extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Arizona.
Its decision upheld the constitutionality of a state law, giving hiring preference to veterans over nonveterans. [223] The law was challenged as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by a woman, who argued that the law discriminated on the basis of sex because so few women were veterans. [223] Duren v.
Hinchcliffe Court opens near Tucson, the first auto court motel in Arizona. [116] 1912 February 14: Arizona becomes the 48th state of the United States; Phoenix becomes the state capital. [108] U.S. President William Howard Taft issues Proclamation 1180: Admitting Arizona to the Union. [117] The Territory of Arizona becomes the State of Arizona.
George Wylie Paul Hunt [a] (November 1, 1859 – December 24, 1934) was an American politician and businessman. He was the first governor of Arizona, serving a total of seven terms, along with President of the convention that wrote Arizona's constitution.
People from pre-statehood Arizona (4 C, ... (5 C, 55 P) Arizona in the American Civil War (3 C, 12 P) Arizona ... Pages in category "Pre-statehood history of Arizona"
Franklin, Kathy Smith. "A Spirit of Mercy: The Sisters of Mercy and the Founding of St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, 1892–1912," Journal of Arizona History (1998) 39#3 pp. 263–288 in JSTOR; Luckingham, Bradford. Minorities in Phoenix: A Profile of Mexican American, Chinese American, and African American Communities, 1860–1992 (1994 ...