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In 1889, what sparsely settled territory was split into two states to preserve Republicans’ electoral advantage in the Senate?
And by the way, did you know that when President Benjamin Harrison signed the statehood papers for the territory mentioned in Question 1, he shuffled the documents and covered them while writing his name? Thus, no one would know which of the two states technically entered the Union first.
The president purportedly did not wish to show any favoritism. Well, except to Republicans, of course.
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