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The 1895 convention was the Utah Territory's seventh and final attempt to be admitted to the United States as a state. The Constitution of Utah was accepted by Congress and President Grover Cleveland, leading to Utah's admittance into the union as the 45th state on January 4, 1896. [1]
The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
The Territory of Utah was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from September 9, 1850, [2] until January 4, 1896, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Utah, [3] the 45th state.
Since then, 37 states have been admitted into the Union. Each new state has been admitted on an equal footing with those already in existence. [2] Of the 37 states admitted to the Union by Congress, all but six have been established within existing U.S. organized incorporated territories. A state that was so created might encompass all or part ...
Since its admission to the Union in January 1896, it has participated in 32 United States presidential elections. In the 1896 presidential election, first presidential election in which the state participated, Utah was won in a landslide by Democrat William Jennings Bryan, who received almost 83 percent of the state's vote.
The constitution was later approved by the citizens of Utah. It took several attempts to get a constitution approved by Congress, which admitted Utah as a state in 1896. [2] During the 2024 United States elections, Utah legislatures attempted to pass an amendment to the Utah constitution that would give power over ballot measures to lawmakers. [4]
An enlargeable map of the United States after the admission of Utah to the Union on May 4 1896. An enlargeable map of the United States as it has been since Hawaiʻi was admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959. The following timeline traces the territorial evolution of the U.S. State of Utah.
It was admitted to the Union as West Virginia [117] on June 20, 1863, the 35th state. [118] Support for the Confederacy and the Union was about evenly divided in the new State and a guerrilla war lasted until 1865. [119] Later, by its ruling in Virginia v.