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Jamestown Convention

12/3/2013: Benjamin Harrison was heading for the White House, and it was an almost a certainty that North Dakota was heading for Statehood. Harrison himself had introduced legislation to allow a single state of Dakota but now recognized that the citizens of both the northern and southern portions of the Territory desired division. But there were a lot of options initiated on the floors of Congress. A bill was introduced to admit a single state of Dakota; another bill to admit Dakota, Washington and Montana, and a still another bill allowing for five new states – adding New Mexico and Utah to the list. There were also bills for a division of Dakota Territory, and even a bill to divide the State of California. ....

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