Congress had a custom of passing resolutions welcoming states into the union after statehood had been officially passed. It was customary, but not legally required.
They skipped that step when Ohio was officially admitted when Thomas Jefferson signed the official act admitting Ohio on February 19, 1803. The oversight was discovered in 1953 and was passed retroactively effective to February 19, 1803, the date Ohio officially became a state pursuant to an act of Congress signed by the President.
I remember the discovery that OH wasn’t legally a State…. I think the solution was to look at “intent”. OH entered the Union in good faith, and somebody missed filing the paperwork properly, or something like that. I think the presumption that anything that really counted had happened sufficiently long ago to make challenges unlikely, and some timely legislation (in 1953) could put the clamps on most of that.
They teach that in Ohio History class to 6th graders if I remember right Congress recognized it on the floor but a resolution was never filed and signed by the president. When the oversight was discovered they quickly passed on and President Eisenhower signed it.
Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
Ohio has been a state for 62 years?! As for that Georgian tree, how can it legally own itself and the land its planted in?
Marblemouth over 8 years ago
Cool, man.
charliefarmrhere over 8 years ago
Looks almost like a frozen Lloyd Bridges.
juicebruce over 8 years ago
So Ohio was not part of the Union during the Civil War? Does this mean that Ohio was the only foreign country to directly fight on the Union side ?
comixbomix over 8 years ago
What about all the votes Ohio’s representatives & senators cast??? Not to mention 8 Presidents who weren’t born in the US after all…
corpcasselbury over 8 years ago
And yet another good reason to not live in Colorado.
Dean over 8 years ago
Does the tree pay property taxes?
Ripplin Premium Member over 8 years ago
*cryonically
DD Wiz Premium Member over 8 years ago
Congress had a custom of passing resolutions welcoming states into the union after statehood had been officially passed. It was customary, but not legally required.
They skipped that step when Ohio was officially admitted when Thomas Jefferson signed the official act admitting Ohio on February 19, 1803. The oversight was discovered in 1953 and was passed retroactively effective to February 19, 1803, the date Ohio officially became a state pursuant to an act of Congress signed by the President.
SMMAssociates over 8 years ago
I remember the discovery that OH wasn’t legally a State…. I think the solution was to look at “intent”. OH entered the Union in good faith, and somebody missed filing the paperwork properly, or something like that. I think the presumption that anything that really counted had happened sufficiently long ago to make challenges unlikely, and some timely legislation (in 1953) could put the clamps on most of that.
Or so it seems….
shibler2 over 8 years ago
They teach that in Ohio History class to 6th graders if I remember right Congress recognized it on the floor but a resolution was never filed and signed by the president. When the oversight was discovered they quickly passed on and President Eisenhower signed it.