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List of U.S. states by date of statehood

The order which the original 13 states ratified the constitution, then the order that the others were admitted to the union

This is a list of U.S. states by date of statehood, that is, the date when each U.S. state joined the Union. Although the first 13 states can be considered to have been members of the United States from the date of the Declaration of Independence – Thursday, July 4, 1776 – they are presented here as being "admitted" on the date each ratified the present United States Constitution; most other such lists, including the 50 State Quarters program, do the same. The admission dates for later states were set by either the act of admission or a later resolution issued under that act, except for Ohio, whose date of admission was determined by act of Congress in 1953 (see note below).

This list does not account for the secession during the American Civil War of 13 states, 11 of which formed the Confederate States of America, and the subsequent restoration of those states to representation in Congress (sometimes called "readmission") between 1866 and 1870, or the end of Reconstruction in those states. Nor do the dates on the list reflect ratification of the Articles of Confederation, which is the original document naming the United States as such.


# State Ratification‡ or Admission Preceding Entity 1 DelawareFriday, December 7, 1787 ‡ Lower Counties on Delaware, then sovereignstatein Confederation2 PennsylvaniaWednesday, December 12, 1787 ‡ Province of Pennsylvania, then sovereign state in Confederation 3 New JerseyTuesday, December 18, 1787 ‡ Province of New Jersey, then sovereign state in Confederation 4 GeorgiaWednesday, January 2, 1788 ‡ Province of Georgia, then sovereign state in Confederation 5 ConnecticutWednesday, January 9, 1788 ‡ Connecticut Colony, then sovereign state in Confederation 6 MassachusettsWednesday, February 6, 1788 ‡ Province of Massachusetts Bay, then sovereign state in Confederation 7 MarylandMonday, April 28, 1788 ‡ Province of Maryland, then sovereign state in Confederation 8 South CarolinaFriday, May 23, 1788 ‡ Province of South Carolina, then sovereign state in Confederation 9 New HampshireSaturday, June 21, 1788 ‡ Province of New Hampshire, then sovereign state in Confederation 10 VirginiaWednesday, June 25, 1788 ‡ Virginia Colony, then sovereign state in Confederation 11 New YorkSaturday, July 26, 1788 ‡ Province of New York, then sovereign state in Confederation 12 North CarolinaSaturday, November 21, 1789 ‡ Province of North Carolina, then sovereign state in Confederation 13 Rhode IslandSaturday, May 29, 1790 ‡ Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, then sovereign state in Confederation 14 VermontFriday, March 4, 1791Province of New Yorkand New Hampshire Grants(ownership disputed), Vermont Republic15 KentuckyFriday, June 1, 1792Virginia(Kentucky County) 16 TennesseeWednesday, June 1, 1796Province of North Carolina, Southwest Territory17 OhioTuesday, March 1, 1803* Northwest Territory18 LouisianaThursday, April 30, 1812Orleans Territory19 IndianaWednesday, December 11, 1816Indiana Territory20 MississippiWednesday, December 10, 1817Mississippi Territory21 IllinoisThursday, December 3, 1818Illinois Territory22 AlabamaTuesday, December 14, 1819Alabama Territory23 MaineWednesday, March 15, 1820Massachusetts24 MissouriFriday, August 10, 1821Missouri Territory25 ArkansasWednesday, June 15, 1836Arkansas Territory26 MichiganThursday, January 26, 1837Michigan Territory27 FloridaMonday, March 3, 1845Florida Territory28 TexasMonday, December 29, 1845Republic of Texas29 IowaMonday, December 28, 1846Iowa Territory30 WisconsinMonday, May 29, 1848Wisconsin Territory31 CaliforniaMonday, September 9, 1850California Republic32 MinnesotaTuesday, May 11, 1858Minnesota Territory33 OregonMonday, February 14, 1859Oregon Territory34 KansasTuesday, January 29, 1861Kansas Territory35 West VirginiaSaturday, June 20, 1863Virginia(divided up) 36 NevadaMonday, October 31, 1864Nevada Territory37 NebraskaFriday, March 1, 1867Nebraska Territory38 ColoradoTuesday, August 1, 1876Colorado Territory39 † North DakotaSaturday, November 2, 1889Dakota Territory40 † South DakotaSaturday, November 2, 1889Dakota Territory41 MontanaFriday, November 8, 1889Montana Territory42 WashingtonMonday, November 11, 1889Washington Territory43 IdahoThursday, July 3, 1890Idaho Territory44 WyomingThursday, July 10, 1890Wyoming Territory45 UtahSaturday, January 4, 1896Utah Territory46 OklahomaSaturday, November 16, 1907Oklahoma Territoryand Indian Territory47 New MexicoSaturday, January 6, 1912New Mexico Territory48 ArizonaWednesday, February 14, 1912Arizona Territory49 AlaskaSaturday, January 3, 1959Alaska Territory50 HawaiiFriday, August 21, 1959Kingdom of Hawai'i, Republic of Hawai'iand then Hawaii Territory

Notes

U.S. states by date of statehood      1776-1790     1791-1799     1800-1819     1820-1839     1840-1859     1860-1879     1880-1899     1900-1950     1950-

 ‡ Original 13 Colonies.

 * Congress recognized the state of Ohio on February 19, 1803[1], but no formal date of statehood was set by the act of admission or a later resolution, as occurred with all other new states. On August 7, 1953, Congress passed a law retroactively setting the date of Ohio's statehood at March 1, 1803, the date when Ohio's first legislature convened.

 † The actual statehood proclamations for North and South Dakota were intentionally shuffled so that no one actually knows which was admitted first; President Benjamin Harrison always refused to tell the order in which he signed the two statehood bills. However, North Dakota's proclamation was published first in the Statutes at Large (since it is first alphabetically).

References

  1. ^ "An act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States, within the state of Ohio", Seventh Congress, Session II, Chapter VII
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