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...Long Wait. "Everything," in fact, was never better. At that moment, the U.S. House of Representatives was approaching a final vote on the Hawaii statehood bill, passed overwhelmingly (76-15) by the Senate the day before. Now, after 59 years of territorial status, 40 of them spent waiting impatiently for statehood, Hawaii was on its way. For years congressional opposition had been overpowering, for the pivotal Southern bloc of Democrats never relished the idea of a new state whose population and character was so seemingly alien-and so Republican to boot. It looked dark for Hawaii last year, too, when...
WASHINGTON, March 12--Hawaii, enchanting paradise of the Pacific, won statehood today...
...official ballot count was slow coming in from such out-of-the-way precincts as Nunivak Island, Pilot Point and Akutan, but long before all the outlying precincts were heard from in Alaska's first statehood election (minimum voting age: 19) the results were clear: the Democrats took every major elective office, from Governor on down, and in the 60-man legislature won every seat but four or five. Top men in the new state...
Edward Lewis Bartlett, 54, U.S. Senator. A onetime gold miner, Seattle-born "Bob"' Bartlett has been a territorial delegate to Congress for 14 years, made himself the Washington symbol of Alaskan statehood ambition, contributed much of the hard work that built the reality of the 49th star, had no trouble beating Juneau Attorney R. E. Robertson...
Ernest Gruening, 71, U.S. Senator. A crusty, longtime conservationist and Alaska territorial governor for 13 years after his appointment by Franklin Roosevelt. Gruening had heavy labor support, campaigned tirelessly, spoke clearly on all questions, personally claimed credit for statehood, the DEW line and the fight against tuberculosis among Alaska's natives. It took all that to beat out young (39) Republican Mike Stepovich, who quit the territorial governorship to run. Stepovich, father of eight children and last-appointed Alaska governor proved to be only a so-so campaigner, got lost in the political infighting, lost the election...