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on February 19, 1803, President Jefferson signed an act of Congress that approved Ohio's boundaries and constitution. However, Congress never passed a resolution formally admitting Ohio as the 17th state. Although no formal resolution of admission was required, when the oversight was discovered in 1953, Ohio congressman George H. Bender introduced a bill in Congress to admit Ohio to the Union retroactive to March 1, 1803. the Ohio state legislature approved a new petition for statehood that was delivered to Washington, D.C. on horseback. On August 7, 1953 (the year of Ohio's 150th anniversary), President Eisenhower signed an act that officially declared March 1, 1803 the date of Ohio's admittance into the Union.Now if we wanted to get petty here couldnt one make the case that because of this oversight Ohio is the last state to be admitted to the union? I wonder if this had come to light before the civil war if the south would have argued to admit it as a slave state.
on February 19, 1803, President Jefferson signed an act of Congress that approved Ohio's boundaries and constitution. However, Congress never passed a resolution formally admitting Ohio... ... August 7, 1953... Eisenhower signed an act that officially declared March 1, 1803 the date of Ohio's admittance into the Union.Now if we wanted to get petty here couldnt one make the case that because of this oversight Ohio is the last state to be admitted to the union? I wonder if this had come to light before the civil war if the south would have argued to admit it as a slave state.
While this might have happened the Compromise of 1850 would have been a factor; California comes in as a free state and perhaps Ohio (it could be argued) would have needed to be a slave state to help the balance of representation.Ohio thought should have come in as the 48th state technically... as Alaska and Hawaii came in in 1959.Wally
