STATES ADMITTED INTO THE UNION SINCE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION-Continued 1 1,108,229 Estimated population, July 1, 1995 1,186,815 Area in miles Formation *595,000 6,471 Formed from the territory of the Republic of Hawaii, annexed to the United States by act of Congress of July 7, 1898. By Public Law 204 of the 83d Cong., approved Aug. 7, 1953 (67 Stat. 407), Congress corrected an oversight of one and a half centuries and formally admitted the State of Ohio to the Union, setting Mar. 1, 1803, as the effective date of admission. 554,256 Area in Formation 69 Established under Art. I, sec. 8, clause 17 of Constitution. Territory originally ceded by Mary- [973] COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, THE INSULAR POSSESSIONS, AND TRUST TERRITORY OF THE 132 By purchase from Denmark, Mar. 3, 1917, for $25,000,000. The Revised Organic Act of 1954 is Occupied during World War II. Placed under the United Nations Trusteeship system in 1947 184 Concluded future political status negotiations in 1975 which will establish a commonwealth re- 1Administered under jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, with a locally drafted constitution and elected governor and legislature. 2 As of November 3, 1986 the Marshall Islands and the Federal States of Micronesia became freely associated states. The 1990 population of the remaining territory, the Republic of Palau, was 15,122. State 1787 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 615022 10 11 12 327 63 4 45 6 6 5 6 6 6 6 35 ........ ........ APPORTIONMENTS OF REPRESENTATIVES-Continued 1787 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 435 437 435 435 435 435 10 29 19 22 Total 65 106 142 186 213 242 232 237 243 293 332 357 391 435 435 *Indicates representation of new States admitted after the respective decennial census apportionments. NOTE: The original apportionment of Representatives was established in 1787 by the Constitution. Subsequent apportionments based on the 1st Census through the 6th Census were as Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia |