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Alaska Statehood Act, admitting Alaska as a state in the Union as of January 3, 1959. Hawaii Admission Act, admitting Hawaii as a state in the Union as of August 21, 1959. Legal status of Hawaii. List of states and territories of the United States. Federalism in the United States.
The Alaska Statehood Act (Pub. L. 85–508, 72 Stat. 339, enacted July 7, 1958) was introduced by Delegate E.L. Bob Bartlett and signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on July 7, 1958. As a result, Alaska became the 49th U.S. state on January 3, 1959. The law was the culmination of a multi-decade effort by many prominent Alaskans, including ...
The Admission Act, formally An Act to Provide for the Admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 86–3, 73 Stat. 4, enacted March 18, 1959) is a statute enacted by the United States Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower which dissolved the Territory of Hawaii and established the State of Hawaii as the 50th state to be ...
Though many Americans think of a vacation in a tropical paradise when imagining Hawaii, how the 50th state came to be a part of the U.S. is ... as the United States became swept up in the storm of ...
Alaska Statehood Act, admitting Alaska as a state in the Union as of January 3, 1959; Hawaii Admission Act, admitting Hawaii as a state in the Union as of August 21, 1959; Federalism in the United States; List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union; List of U.S. state partition proposals; Perpetual Union; State cessions
Alaska Airlines’ current regional president of Hawaii /Pacific, Joe Sprague, pictured at right, is set to become the new Hawaiian Airlines CEO following a merger of the airlines.
[14] [15] The most recent territories to become U.S. states were Alaska on January 3, 1959, and Hawaii on August 21, 1959. [16] Politically and economically, the territories are underdeveloped. Residents of U.S. territories cannot vote in U.S. presidential elections, and they have only non-voting representation in the U.S. Congress. [7]
Dec. 5—Residents of Hawaii and Alaska, two states with close ties despite their vast distance apart, should generally expect improvements in air travel with the merger of Alaska and Hawaiian ...