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Summer - Rev. Michael Hummer climbed into the belfry of the Presbyterian Church in Iowa City, trying to “recover” the bell he believed to be his. [1] November 7 - Lewis Cass wins the United States presidential election in Iowa. [2]
The Winnebago and Potawatomi, who had only a short time before been removed to Iowa, were yet again removed and had left Iowa by 1848 and 1846, respectively. [23] The last remaining group, the Sioux, ceded their last Iowa land via an 1851 treaty with the United States, which they completed in 1852.
Taylor became the first of currently only six American presidents to have never won Iowa since its statehood. The 1848 election in Iowa began a trend in which the state would vote the same as neighboring Wisconsin , as the two states have voted in lockstep with each other on all but 6 occasions - 1892 , 1924 , 1940 , 1976 , 2004 , and 2020 .
In the 1848 Iowa State Senate elections, Iowa voters elected state senators to serve in the second Iowa General Assembly. Elections were held for 10 of the state senate's 19 seats. [d] State senators serve four-year terms in the Iowa State Senate. The general election took place in 1848. [5]
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 Iowa was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1838, [1] until December 28, 1846, when the southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Iowa.
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Territory of Wisconsin, (1836–1838)-1848 Honey War, 1837–1851; Territory of Iowa, 1838–1846 Mexican–American War, April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848; State of Iowa becomes 29th State admitted to the United States of America on December 28, 1846 American Civil War, April 12, 1861 – May 13, 1865 Iowa in the American Civil War