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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]
Michigan (/ ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən / ⓘ MISH-ig-ən) is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.It borders Wisconsin to the southwest in the Upper Peninsula, and Indiana and Ohio to the south in the Lower Peninsula; it is also connected by Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie to Minnesota and Illinois, and the Canadian province of Ontario.
1855 Michigan State University was founded as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, becoming the first land grant university in the United States. 1861-1865 Michigan sent 90,000 men, nearly a quarter of the state's male population, to fight in state regiments in the Civil War. 1871 Fires burned Manistee and Holland.
1941 – Bob Cunis, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2008) [127] 1941 – Chuck McKinley, American tennis player (d. 1986) [128] 1941 – Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter [129] 1941 – Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer and coach (d. 2011) [130] 1942 – Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist and conductor (d. 2024) [131]
Each state elects two senators, while representatives are distributed among the states in proportion to the most recent constitutionally mandated decennial census. [5] Additionally, each state is entitled to select a number of electors to vote in the Electoral College , the body that elects the president of the United States , equal to the ...
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Michigan had fifteen seats in the House, apportioned according to the 2000 United States census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms; those elected will serve in the 111th Congress from January 3, 2009, until January 3, 2011. The election coincided with the 2008 U.S. presidential election.