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OCR Page 1 of 2IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 3, 1959
James C. Hagerty, Press Secretary to the President
THE WHITE HOUSE
ADMISSION OF THE STATE OF ALASKA INTO THE UNION
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
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WHEREAS the Congress of the United States by the act approved on
July 7, 1958 (72 Stat. 339), accepted, ratified, and confirmed the
constitution adopted by a vote of the people of Alaska in an election held
on April 24, 1956, and provided for the admission of the State of Alaska
into the Union on an equal footing with the other States of the Union upon
compliance with certain procedural requirements specified in that act; and
WHEREAS it appears from information before me that a majority
of the legal votes cast at an election held on August 26, 1958, were in
favor of each of the propositions required to be submitted to the people of
Alaska by section 8 (b) of the act of July 7, 1958; and
WHEREAS it further appears from information before me that
a
general election was held on November 25, 1958, and that the returns of
the general election were made and certified as provided in the act of
July 7, 1958; and
WHEREAS the Acting Governor of Alaska has certified to me the
results of the submission to the people of Alaska of the three propositions
set forth in section 8 (b) of the act of July 7, 1958, and the results of the
general election; and
WHEREAS I find and announce that the people of Alaska have duly
adopted the propositions required to be submitted to them by the act of
July 7, 1958, and have duly elected the officers required to be elected by
that act:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of
the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the
procedural requirements imposed by the Congress on the State of Alaska
to entitle that State to admission into the Union have been complied with
in all respects and that admission of the State of Alaska into the Union on
an equal footing with the other States of the Union is now accomplished,
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused
the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington at one minute past noon on this
third day of January in the year
(SEAL)
of our Lord nineteen hundred and
fifty-nine, and of the Independence
of the United States of America
the one hundred and eighty-third.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
By the President:
CHRISTIAN A, HERTER,
Acting Secretary of State,
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