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States by Order of Entry into Union

The table below details when each state joined the union. /**/ State Entered Union Year settled  1. Delaware Dec. 7, 1787 1638  2. Pennsylvania Dec. 12, 1787 1682…

States by Order of Entry into the Union

The Question: Could you provide me with a list of each state and when that state became a part of the United State of America? I don't have the time to look…

Gabrielle GIFFORDS, Congress, AZ (1970)

GIFFORDS, Gabrielle, a Representative from Arizona; born in Tucson, Pima County, Ariz., June 8, 1970; graduated from University High School, Tucson, Ariz., 1988; B.A., Scripps College, Claremont,…

credit union

(Encyclopedia) credit union, cooperative, not-for-profit financial institution that makes low-interest personal loans to its members. It is usually composed of persons from the same occupational…

Consumers' Union

(Encyclopedia) Consumers' Union, product testing and rating organization founded (1936) to provide consumers with information and counsel regarding major retail goods and services. Through its…

European Union

(Encyclopedia) European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community (EC), an economic and political…

Fort Union

(Encyclopedia) Fort Union, trading post of the American Fur Company, erected in 1828 near the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers, on the Mont.-N.Dak. line; it controlled converging…

industrial union

(Encyclopedia) industrial union, labor union composed of all the workers in a given industry, regardless of skill, craft, or occupation (as opposed to the craft union, in which all members are of one…