The Alaska Statehood Act (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 85–508, 72 Stat. 339, enacted July 7, 1958) was a legislative act introduced by Delegate...
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admitted as a single state Alaska Statehood Act, admitting Alaska as a state in the Union as of January 3, 1959 Hawaii Admission Act, admitting Hawaii as a...
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in Alaska. The act is codified in chapter 33 of title 43 of the US Code. When Alaska became a state in 1959, section 4 of the Alaska Statehood Act provided...
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Bob Bartlett (category Alaska Democrats)
introduction of the Alaska Statehood Act to the House, where he was key in shepherding its passage. Bartlett labored constantly for statehood, being a member...
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of Alaska or Alaska Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from August 24, 1912, until Alaska was granted statehood on...
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Mike Stepovich (category Alaska lawyers)
Governor of the Territory of Alaska. Stepovich served as Territorial Governor from 1957 to 1958, and Alaska was given U.S. statehood in 1959. Stepovich was...
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contributed to the population growth of some Alaskan cities. Alaska was granted U.S. statehood on January 3, 1959. In 1964, the massive "Good Friday earthquake"...
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14, 1931. It hosted federal services until 1959, when the Alaska Statehood Act granted Alaska permission to settle in the building. There have been efforts...
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the Hawaii Statehood Commission, to stop them from spending public money to lobby for statehood, invalidating a single section of the Act which created...
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control. In the end President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act, making Alaska the 49th state of the Union. Michener invents characters...
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land area, the state of Alaska owns 101 million acres (41 million hectares), its entitlement under the Alaska Statehood Act. A portion of that acreage...
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courthouse and the post office for the territory. Alaska gained statehood in 1959 and under the Alaska Statehood Act, the Federal and Territorial Building was...
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as a U.S. state on January 3, 1959. In the 1940s, the movement for Alaska statehood was gaining momentum within the territory, but stymied by opposition...
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Admission to the Union (redirect from U.S. statehood)
admission to the Union Alaska Statehood Act, admitting Alaska as a state in the Union as of January 3, 1959 Hawaii Admission Act, admitting Hawaii as a...
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Project Chariot (category Pre-statehood history of Alaska)
University of Alaska, even church groups all rallied in support of the massive detonation. Congress had passed the Alaska Statehood Act just a few weeks...
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Alaskan Independence Party (redirect from Alaska Independence Party)
Alaskan statehood vote. In 1973, Vogler began circulating a petition seeking support for secession of Alaska from the United States. The Alaska magazine...
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Alaska Commercial Company (ACC) is a grocery and retail company which operates stores in rural Alaska, beginning in the early period of Alaska's ownership...
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decade after the Alaska Statehood Act in 1959 there were two significant Federal acts that impacted Alaska Natives. The first was the Alaska Native Claims...
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Russian colonization of North America (redirect from Russian Alaska)
romanized: Russkaya Amerika; 1799 to 1867). It consisted mostly of present-day Alaska in the United States, but also included the outpost of Fort Ross in California...
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Crow Village Sam (category People from pre-statehood Alaska)
in the mid-Kuskokwim River valley in Alaska. Sam Phillips was born around 1893 in the old Crow Village, Alaska. Birth records in the area were not maintained...
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Mike Dunleavy (politician) (redirect from Mike Dunleavy (Alaska))
promised under the Alaska Statehood Act. The initiative was inspired by the Supreme Court decision Sturgeon v. Frost, which affirmed Alaska's authority over...
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Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act (1957) Alaska Statehood Act (1958) Humane Slaughter Act (1958) National Defense Education Act 1958; Federal Perkins Loan...
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Bob Atwood (category Alaska Republicans)
publisher of the Anchorage Times. He was also an early advocate of Alaska statehood. Robert Bruce Atwood, known as Bob Atwood or Robert Atwood, was born...
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ISBN 9780806137797. "Alaska Statehood Act, Proposition 3 (August 1958)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved September 9, 2024. "STATEHOOD ELECTION - Final Results...
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The Puerto Rico statehood movement (Spanish: movimiento estadista de Puerto Rico) aims to make Puerto Rico a state of the United States. Puerto Rico is...
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Ted Stevens (category 20th-century Alaska politicians)
opposing us." The Alaska Statehood Act became law with Eisenhower's signature on July 7, 1958, and Alaska formally was admitted to statehood on January 3,...
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Samuel Balto (category People from Nome, Alaska)
Grønlandsisen i 1888 – Min reise fra Sameland til Grønland. In 1898, Balto moved to Alaska and signed a two-year contract as a reindeer herder. In 1900, he led a large...
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Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act (1957) Alaska Statehood Act (1958) Humane Slaughter Act (1958) National Defense Education Act 1958; Federal Perkins Loan...
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Gunnar Kaasen (category People from Nome, Alaska)
delivered a cylinder containing 300,000 units of diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925, as the last leg of a dog sled relay that saved the U.S. city from...
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bases of the company in present-day Alaska. In addition, he oversaw the expansion of the lucrative fur trade with Alaska Natives. He engaged in brutal tactics...
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