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Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It borders Colorado to its east,Wyoming to its northeast,Idaho to its north,Arizona to its south,and Nevada to its west. Utah also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast. Of the fifty U.S. states,Utah is the 13th-largest by area;with a population over three million,it is the 30th-most-populous and 11th-least-densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas:the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state,which is home to roughly two-thirds of the population and includes the capital city,Salt Lake City;and Washington County in the southwest,with more than 180,000 residents. Most of the western half of Utah lies in the Great Basin.
The Territory of Utah was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from September 9,1850,until January 4,1896,when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Utah,the 45th state. At its creation,the Territory of Utah included all of the present-day State of Utah,most of the present-day state of Nevada save for Southern Nevada,much of present-day western Colorado,and the extreme southwest corner of present-day Wyoming.
William Henry King was an American lawyer,politician,and jurist from Salt Lake City,Utah. As a Democrat,King represented Utah in the United States Senate from 1917 until 1941.
Since Utah became a U.S. state in 1896,it has sent congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years. Before the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913,senators were elected by the Utah State Legislature. Members of the House of Representatives are elected to two-year terms,one from each of Utah's four congressional districts. Before becoming a state,the Territory of Utah elected a non-voting delegate at-large to Congress from 1850 to 1896.
John Henry Smith was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a prominent politician in Utah and played an important role in the transition from Utah as a territory to a state of the United States.
The 54th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government,consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington,D.C.,from March 4,1895,to March 4,1897,during the last two years of Grover Cleveland's second presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1890 United States census. The House had a Republican majority,and the Republicans were the largest party in the Senate.
Frank Jenne Cannon was the first United States Senator from Utah,who served from 1896 to 1899.
The Utah State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Utah. It is a bicameral body,comprising the Utah House of Representatives,with 75 state representatives,and the Utah Senate,with 29 state senators. There are no term limits for either chamber.
The Utah Republican Party is the affiliate of the Republican Party in the U.S. state of Utah. It is currently the dominant party in the state,and has been for almost all of its history. It currently holds Utah's entire congressional delegation,all statewide executive offices,and supermajorities in both state legislative chambers.
Joseph Howell was a U.S. Representative from Utah.
John Harris Taylor was one of the seven presidents of Seventy in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Utah:
Women's suffrage was first granted in Utah in 1870,in the pre-federal period,decades before statehood. Among all U.S. states,only Wyoming granted suffrage to women earlier than Utah. Because Utah held two elections before Wyoming,Utah women were the first women to cast ballots in the United States after the start of the suffrage movement. However,in 1887 the Edmunds–Tucker Act was passed by Congress in an effort to curtail Mormon influence in the territorial government,disallowing the enfranchisement of the women residents within Utah Territory. Women regained the vote upon Utah statehood in 1896,when lawmakers included the right in the state constitution.
The following timeline traces the territorial evolution of the U.S. State of Utah.
The 1896 University of Utah football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah as an independent during the 1896 college football season. Head coach C. B. Ferris led the team to a 3–2 record.
The attorney general of Utah is an elected constitutional officer in the executive branch of the state government of Utah. The attorney general is the chief legal officer and legal adviser in the state. The office is elected,with a term of four years.
The 1896 United States presidential election in Utah was held on November 3,1896 as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives,or electors to the Electoral College,who voted for president and vice president. This was the first time Utah participated in a presidential election,having been admitted as the 45th state on January 4 of that year.
The 1896 Utah Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah Agricultural College during the 1896 college football season. In their second season of intercollegiate football,the Aggies compiled a 0–1 record.
The 1895 Utah gubernatorial election was held on November 3,1895. It was the first gubernatorial election in the state of Utah and it was held before it became a state on the 4 of January,1896,to set up the machinery for the new state. Republican Heber Manning Wells defeated Democratic nominee John Thomas Caine with 50.32% of the vote. Wells' first term was to run for five years,until the next general election in 1900. Also,Populist Henry W. Lawrence ran but only won 4.95% of the vote.
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- ↑ "The Broad Ax from Salt Lake City, Utah on January 4, 1896 · Page 4". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
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