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May, Dean L. Utah: A people's history (U of Utah Press, 1987). Peterson, Charles S. and Brian Q. Cannon. The Awkward State of Utah: Coming of Age in the Nation, 1896–1945. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-60781-421-4, scholarly survey; Peterson, Charles S. Utah: A history (WW Norton & Company, 1984), popular survey.
Utah was the first state to resume executions after the 1972–1976 national moratorium on capital punishment ended with Gregg v. Georgia, when Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad in 1977. [202] Utah is one of only two states to have ever carried out executions by firing squad, and the only one to do so after the moratorium ended. [203]
Year Date Event 2020: November 3: In the 2020 General Election, Utah voters elect six U.S. Presidential Electors for President Donald Trump, elect Spencer Cox as Governor, elect Blake Moore as U.S. Representative for Utah's 1st Congressional District and Burgess Owens for Utah's 4th Congressional District, and re-elect Chris Stewart and John Curtis.
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, ...
Another 53 miles of the Utah Territory is transferred to the State of Nevada, May 5, 1866; North-eastern corner of the Utah Territory is incorporated into the new Territory of Wyoming, July 25, 1868; Utah Enabling Act, July 16, 1894; Territory of Jefferson (extralegal), 1859–1861; State of Utah since January 4, 1896 [2]
The Congress organized the Utah Territory out of the "State of Deseret" in 1850, and a few months later on January 6, 1851, the city was formally organized as "The City of the Great Salt Lake". [citation needed] Originally, Fillmore, Utah was the territorial capital, but in 1856 it was moved to Salt Lake City, where it has stayed ever since.
The State of Deseret (modern pronunciation / ˌ d ɛ z ə ˈ r ɛ t / ⓘ DEZ-ə-RET, [1] contemporaneously / d ɛ s iː r ɛ t / dess-ee-ret, [dubious – discuss] as recorded in the Deseret alphabet spelling 𐐔𐐯𐑅𐐨𐑉𐐯𐐻) [2] was a proposed state of the United States, promoted by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who had founded ...