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The order in which the original 13 states ratified the constitution, then the order in which the others were admitted to the union

This is a list of U.S. states by date of statehood, that is, the date when each U.S. state joined the Union. Although the first 13 states can be considered to have been members of the United States from the date of the Declaration of Independence – July 4, 1776 – they are presented here as being "admitted" on the date each ratified the present United States Constitution; most other such lists, including the 50 State Quarters program, do the same. The admission dates for later states were set by either the act of admission or a later resolution issued under that act, except for Ohio, whose date of admission was determined by act of Congress in 1953 (see note below).

This list does not account for the secession during the American Civil War of 13 states, 11 of which formed the Confederate States of America, and the subsequent restoration of those states to representation in Congress (sometimes called "readmission") between 1866 and 1870, or the end of Reconstruction in those states.

States

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# United States State Ratification‡ or Admission Preceding Entity
1 Delaware Delaware December 7, 1787 Lower Counties on Delaware, then sovereign state in Confederation
2 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania December 12, 1787 Province of Pennsylvania, then sovereign state in Confederation
3 New Jersey New Jersey December 18, 1787 Province of New Jersey, then sovereign state in Confederation
4 Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia January 2, 1788 Province of Georgia, then sovereign state in Confederation
5 Connecticut Connecticut January 9, 1788 Connecticut Colony, then sovereign state in Confederation
6 Massachusetts Massachusetts February 6, 1788 Province of Massachusetts Bay, then sovereign state in Confederation
7 Maryland Maryland April 28, 1788 Province of Maryland, then sovereign state in Confederation
8 South Carolina South Carolina May 23, 1788 Province of South Carolina, then sovereign state in Confederation
9 New Hampshire New Hampshire June 21, 1788 Province of New Hampshire, then sovereign state in Confederation
10 Virginia Virginia June 25, 1788 Virginia Colony, then sovereign state in Confederation
11 New York (state) New York July 26, 1788 Province of New York, then sovereign state in Confederation
12 North Carolina North Carolina November 21, 1789 Province of North Carolina, then sovereign state in Confederation
13 Rhode Island Rhode Island [and Providence Plantations] May 29, 1790 Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, then sovereign state
14 Vermont Vermont March 4, 1791 Province of New York and New Hampshire Grants (ownership disputed), Vermont Republic
15 Kentucky Kentucky June 1, 1792 Virginia (Kentucky County)
16 Tennessee Tennessee June 1, 1796 Province of North Carolina, Southwest Territory
17 Ohio Ohio March 1, 1803* Northwest Territory
18 Louisiana Louisiana April 30, 1812 Territory of Orleans
19 Indiana Indiana December 11, 1816 Indiana Territory
20 Mississippi Mississippi December 10, 1817 Mississippi Territory
21 Illinois Illinois December 3, 1818 Illinois Territory
22 Alabama Alabama December 14, 1819 Alabama Territory
23 Maine Maine March 15, 1820 District of Maine in Massachusetts
24 Missouri Missouri August 10, 1821 Missouri Territory
25 Arkansas Arkansas June 15, 1836 Arkansas Territory
26 Michigan Michigan January 26, 1837 Michigan Territory
27 Florida Florida March 3, 1845 Florida Territory
28 Texas Texas December 29, 1845 Republic of Texas
29 Iowa Iowa December 28, 1846 Iowa Territory
30 Wisconsin Wisconsin May 29, 1848 Wisconsin Territory
31 California California September 9, 1850 California Republic
32 Minnesota Minnesota May 11, 1858 Minnesota Territory
33 Oregon Oregon February 14, 1859 Oregon Territory
34 Kansas Kansas January 29, 1861 Kansas Territory
35 West Virginia West Virginia June 20, 1863 Virginia (divided up)
36 Nevada Nevada October 31, 1864 Nevada Territory
37 Nebraska Nebraska March 1, 1867 Nebraska Territory
38 Colorado Colorado August 1, 1876 Colorado Territory
39 † North Dakota North Dakota November 2, 1889 Dakota Territory
40 † South Dakota South Dakota November 2, 1889 Dakota Territory
41 Montana Montana November 8, 1889 Montana Territory
42 Washington (state) Washington November 11, 1889 Washington Territory
43 Idaho Idaho July 3, 1890 Idaho Territory
44 Wyoming Wyoming July 10, 1890 Wyoming Territory
45 Utah Utah January 4, 1896 Utah Territory
46 Oklahoma Oklahoma November 16, 1907 Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory
47 New Mexico New Mexico January 6, 1912 New Mexico Territory
48 Arizona Arizona February 14, 1912 Arizona Territory
49 Alaska Alaska January 3, 1959 Russia and then Alaska Territory
50 Hawaii Hawaii August 21, 1959 Kingdom of Hawai'i, Republic of Hawai'i and then Hawaii Territory

Notes and references

U.S. states by date of statehood
  1776-1790
  1791-1799
  1800-1819
  1820-1839
  1840-1859
  1860-1879
  1880-1899
  1900-1950
  1950-

 ‡ Original 13 states. All became states on July 4, 1776. They are listed here, however, by their dates of ratifying the Constitution.

 * Congress recognized the state of Ohio on February 19, 1803[1], but no formal date of statehood was set by the act of admission or a later resolution, as occurred with all other new states. On August 7, 1953, Congress passed a law retroactively setting the date of Ohio's statehood at March 1, 1803, the date when Ohio's first legislature convened.

 † The actual statehood proclamations for North and South Dakota were intentionally shuffled so that no one actually knows which was admitted first; President Benjamin Harrison always refused to tell the order in which he signed the two statehood bills. However, North Dakota's proclamation was published first in the Statutes at Large (since it is first alphabetically).

See also