Hawaii achieved it in 1959

Usage examples of statehood.

Illinois upon the pathway to statehood was what is so well known in our political history as the Ordinance of 1787.

Russian statehood for the second time ran across the Jewish problem when Smolensk was taken by Czar Alexyey Mikhaylovich the Debonnaire, also an old Russian nationalist who was not conscious of his nationalism.

Russian citizens, all of us who joyously and willingly bear the burden of statehood, are called upon to settle in conscience and reason, the fundamental problems of our great home-building.

Our information is that the discussions centered around full statehood for Puerto Rico if Wood is elected.

Granting PR full statehood would give the left another one and a half percent of the population.

We were buoyed by the decisive vote in the Virgin Islands, toward whose statehood the President had devoted so much energy, as well as by the news that we would only lose Massachusetts by a margin of 400,000 votes.

No primitive tribe had grown to statehood in even partial isolation, and the cultural streams had flowed strongly in all directions, losing their narrow intensity and broadening out into what eventually became one universal lake.

The patrols reported that at times a metal sphere, at times a humanoid creature five hundred miles in length, was moving through the nebula, that it was speaking to itself about this and that, but concerning its statehood it gave evasive answers.

Several western states have celebrated their first century of statehood in 1989 and 1990, Idaho among them, and we salute those men and women of yesteryear who made statehood possible.

Upon the admission of Ohio to Statehood in 1803, the remainder of the North-west territory became the Territory of Indiana.

Carter of the Thirty-ninth District in Texas appointed himself a committee of one to investigatefor the fourteenth time Hawaii's fitness for statehood.

In fact, I do not assume that industrialized states are "better" than hunter-gatherer tribes, or that the abandonment of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle for iron-based statehood represents "progress," or that it has led to an increase in human happiness.

Since Quebec went independent, the Maritime Provinces have been considering statehood.

But their ethnic pride, like that of the other Turkic peoples in Central Asia, as well as of the Persianized Tajiks, never conformed with statehood.

They had conquered many lands from the heathenish Slavs and Lithuanians who were living in the plain between the Baltic Sea and the Carpathian Mountains, and the Franks administered those outlying districts just as the United States used to administer her territories before they achieved the dignity of statehood.