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The same clause empowers each state legislature to determine the manner by which that state's electors are chosen but prohibits federal office holders from being named electors. Following the national presidential election day on Tuesday after the first Monday in November, [ 17 ] each state, and the federal district, selects its electors ...
"Washington, Blessed with Three World's Fairs" Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History '(Winter2011/2012) 25#4 pp 20-World's fairs held in Washington State, including the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) and the 1962 "The Century 21 Exposition," both held in Seattle; and Expo '74, "Man and His Environment," held in Spokane in 1974.
Washington Territory. The Territory of Washington was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1853, until November 11, 1889, when the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Washington. It was created from the portion of the Oregon Territory north of the lower Columbia River and north of ...
The history of Arizona encompasses the Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Post-Archaic, Spanish, Mexican, and American periods. About 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, Paleo-Indians settled in what is now Arizona. A few thousand years ago, the Ancestral Puebloan, the Hohokam, the Mogollon and the Sinagua cultures inhabited the state.
The Gadsden Purchase (Spanish: Venta de La Mesilla "La Mesilla sale") [2] is a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km 2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854.
The act doing so was passed in Congress on April 28, 1800, and Connecticut approved it on this date. [96] July 4, 1800 Indiana Territory was organized from the western half of Northwest Territory. [m] [98] [97] November 17, 1800 The Congress of the United States moved to Washington in the District of Columbia, now built and ready to be the ...
1788–89 United States presidential election. Washington is inaugurated as president of the United States in 1789. The first U.S. presidential election was held over a period of weeks from December 1788 to January 1789. Washington was elected with 69 of the 69 first-round votes cast in the United States Electoral College.
An election was held to choose 75 delegates to frame a constitution for the State of Washington. The elected delegates assembled on July 4, 1889, in the Territorial Capitol Building in Olympia and labored through the summer to draft a constitution that would form the basis for all future Washington laws. On August 23, 1889, the convention ...