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The History of Nevada as a state began when it became the 36th state on October 31, 1864, after telegraphing the Constitution of Nevada to the Congress days before the November 8 presidential election (the largest and costliest transmission ever by telegraph).
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]
Eight days before the presidential election of 1864, Nevada became the 36th state in the Union, despite lacking the minimum 60,000 residents that Congress typically required a potential state to have in order to become a state. [30] At the time, Nevada's population was little more than 40,000. [31]
The Territory of Nevada (N.T.) [1] [2] was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, [3] until October 31, 1864, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Nevada.
The Nevada Constitution was created in 1864 at a convention on July 4 in Carson City. The convention adjourned on July 28, was approved by public vote on the first Wednesday in September, and became effective on October 31, when on that date President Abraham Lincoln declared Nevada to be a state.
The majority of what is now Nevada was separated from the Territory of Utah and formally organized as the Territory of Nevada on March 2, 1861, just as southern states began seceding from the Union and joining the Confederacy. The Nevada Territory was short-lived, however, as its entry into full statehood in the United States was expedited in 1864.
Nevada is now the first U.S. state with an overall female majority in the Legislature after Las Vegas officials appointed two women to fill vacancies.
In some cases, an entire territory became a state; in others some part of a territory became a state. ... two large additions to Nevada, which became a state in 1864 ...