An Act to provide for the admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union.
Nicknames
Hawaii Statehood
Enacted by
the 86th United States Congress
Effective
March 18, 1959
Citations
Public law
86-3
Statutes at Large
73 Stat. 4
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 50
Passed the Senate on March 11, 1959 (76–15)
Passed the House on March 12, 1959 (323–89, in lieu of H.R. 4221)
Signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on March 18, 1959
The Admission Act, formally An Act to Provide for the Admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 86–3, 73 Stat. 4, enacted March 18, 1959) is a statute enacted by the United States Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower which dissolved the Territory of Hawaii and established the State of Hawaii as the 50th state to be admitted into the Union.[1] Statehood became effective on August 21, 1959.[2] Hawaii remains the most recent state to join the United States.
^Peters, Gerhard; Woolley, John T. "Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Statement by the President Upon Signing the Hawaii Statehood Bill.," March 18, 1959". The American Presidency Project. University of California – Santa Barbara. Retrieved April 3, 2014.
^"48 USC 3 Hawaii".
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