List of U.s. States By Date of Statehood Information
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 – July 4, 1776 – or from the date on which they ratified the Articles of Confederation, 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 as March 1, 1803 when its legislature first met because of a clerical error of omission — the original act omitted setting a date that the act took effect.[1]
This list does not account for the secession of 11 states during the American Civil War to form the Confederate States of America, 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; since their secession was declared illegal by the Supreme Court in Texas v. White, they never legally left the Union. It also does not account for secessionist governments formed in two other states, as their Unionist governments generally remained in control.
| # | State | Admission [2] | Preceding Entity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delaware | 01787-12-07 December 7, 1787[2] | Delaware !Lower Counties on Delaware i.e. lower counties of Pennsylvania, then sovereign state in Confederation | |
| 2 | Pennsylvania | 01787-12-12 December 12, 1787[2] | Pennsylvania !Province of Pennsylvania, then sovereign state in Confederation | |
| 3 | New Jersey | 01787-12-18 December 18, 1787[2] | New Jersey !Province of New Jersey, then sovereign state in Confederation | |
| 4 | Georgia | 01788-01-02 January 2, 1788[2] | Georgia !Province of Georgia, then sovereign state in Confederation | |
| 5 | Connecticut | 01788-01-09 January 9, 1788[2] | Connecticut Colony, then sovereign state in Confederation | |
| 6 | Massachusetts | 01788-02-06 February 6, 1788[2] | Massachusetts !Province of Massachusetts Bay, then sovereign state in Confederation | |
| 7 | Maryland | 01788-04-28 April 28, 1788[2] | Maryland !Province of Maryland, then sovereign state in Confederation | |
| 8 | South Carolina | 01788-05-23 May 23, 1788[2] | South Carolina !Province of South Carolina, then sovereign state in Confederation | |
| 9 | New Hampshire | 01788-06-21 June 21, 1788[2] | New Hampshire !Province of New Hampshire, then sovereign state in Confederation | |
| 10 | Virginia | 01788-06-25 June 25, 1788[2] | Virginia Colony, then sovereign state in Confederation | |
| 11 | New York | 01788-07-26 July 26, 1788[2] | New York !Province of New York, then sovereign state in Confederation | |
| 12 | North Carolina | 01789-11-21 November 21, 1789[2] | North Carolina !Province of North Carolina, then sovereign state in Confederation | |
| 13 | Rhode Island | 01790-05-29 May 29, 1790[2] | Rhode Island !Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, then sovereign state | |
| 14 | Vermont | 01791-03-04 March 4, 1791 | New York !Province of New York and New Hampshire Grants (ownership disputed), Vermont Republic | |
| 15 | Kentucky | 01792-06-01 June 1, 1792 | Virginia !Split off from Virginia with consent of that state. The former huge, westmost Kentucky County | |
| 16 | Tennessee | 01796-06-01 June 1, 1796 | North Carolina !Formed from western land donated to the Federal Government by North Carolina | |
| 17 | Ohio | 01803-03-01 March 1, 1803[1] | Northwest Territory !The Northwest Territory, land donated to the Federal Government by the East Coast states such as Pennsylvania, Virginia, Connecticut, and New York | |
| 18 | Louisiana | 01812-04-30 April 30, 1812 | Orleans, Territory of !Territory of Orleans | |
| 19 | Indiana | 01816-12-11 December 11, 1816 | Indiana Territory, formed from the Northwest Territory | |
| 20 | Mississippi | 01817-12-10 December 10, 1817 | Mississippi Territory, formed from land donated to the Federal Government by Georgia | |
| 21 | Illinois | 01818-12-03 December 3, 1818 | Illinois Territory, formed from the Northwest Territory | |
| 22 | Alabama | 01819-12-14 December 14, 1819 | Alabama Territory, formed from the Mississippi Territory, formerly part of the State of Georgia | |
| 23 | Maine | 01820-03-19 March 19, 1820 | Massachusetts !Split off from Massachusetts with consent of that state (the former District of Maine) | |
| 24 | Missouri | 01821-08-10 August 10, 1821 | Missouri Territory | |
| 25 | Arkansas | 01836-06-15 June 15, 1836 | Arkansas Territory | |
| 26 | Michigan | 01837-01-26 January 26, 1837 | Michigan Territory, formed from the Northwest Territory | |
| 27 | Florida | 01845-03-03 March 3, 1845 | Florida Territory | |
| 28 | Texas | 01845-12-29 December 29, 1845 | Texas !Republic of Texas | |
| 29 | Iowa | 01846-12-28 December 28, 1846 | Iowa Territory | |
| 30 | Wisconsin | 01848-05-29 May 29, 1848 | Wisconsin Territory, formed from the Northwest Territory | |
| 31 | California | 01850-09-09 September 9, 1850 | Directly admitted from the Mexican Cession | |
| 32 | Minnesota | 01858-05-11 May 11, 1858 | Minnesota Territory | |
| 33 | Oregon | 01859-02-14 February 14, 1859 | Oregon Territory | |
| 34 | Kansas | 01861-01-29 January 29, 1861 | Kansas Territory | |
| 35 | West Virginia | 01863-06-20 June 20, 1863 | Virginia !Divided off from Virginia | |
| 36 | Nevada | 01864-10-31 October 31, 1864 | Nevada Territory, with part of Arizona Territory and Utah Territory added on later | |
| 37 | Nebraska | 01867-03-01 March 1, 1867 | Nebraska Territory | |
| 38 | Colorado | 01876-08-01 August 1, 1876 | Colorado Territory | |
| 39[3] | North Dakota | 01889-11-02 November 2, 1889 | Dakota Territory | |
| 40[3] | South Dakota | 01889-11-02 November 2, 1889 | Dakota Territory | |
| 41 | Montana | 01889-11-08 November 8, 1889 | Montana Territory | |
| 42 | Washington | 01889-11-11 November 11, 1889 | Washington Territory | |
| 43 | Idaho | 01890-07-03 July 3, 1890 | Idaho Territory | |
| 44 | Wyoming | 01890-07-10 July 10, 1890 | Wyoming Territory | |
| 45 | Utah | 01896-01-04 January 4, 1896 | Utah Territory | |
| 46 | Oklahoma | 01907-11-16 November 16, 1907 | Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory | |
| 47 | New Mexico | 01912-01-06 January 6, 1912 | New Mexico Territory | |
| 48 | Arizona | 01912-02-14 February 14, 1912 | Arizona Territory | |
| 49 | Alaska | 01959-01-03 January 3, 1959 | Russian America, Department of Alaska, District of Alaska and then Alaska Territory | |
| 50 | Hawaii | 01959-08-21 August 21, 1959 | Hawaii !Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, Republic of Hawaii and then Hawaii Territory | |
Notes and references
U.S. states by date of statehood 1776-1790 1791-1799 1800-1819 1820-1839 1840-1859 1860-1879 1880-1899 1900-1950 1950-1959- ^ a b Congress recognized the state of Ohio on February 19, 1803 ("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), 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Original 13 states since 1776 by order of ratification.
- ^ a b 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).
- 50 State Quarter Program from the United States Mint (including dates of statehood) [Retrieved: January 19, 2006]
- Dates of statehood, via 50states.com (includes notes, retrieved January 19, 2006)
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