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{"id":412,"date":"2009-08-20T20:23:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T20:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaiianbeachrentals.com\/hawaiitravelblog\/celebrating-hawaiis-statehood-the-50-year-anniversary-is-august-21\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T11:48:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T11:48:58","slug":"hawaii-events-celebrating-hawaiis-statehood-the-50-year-anniversary-is-august-21-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaiianbeachrentals.com\/hawaiitravelblog\/hawaii-events\/celebrating-hawaii%E2%80%99s-statehood-the-50-year-anniversary-is-august-21.html","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Hawaii\u2019s Statehood – The 50-Year Anniversary Is August 21!"},"content":{"rendered":"Fifty Years of Statehood \u2013 Hawaii Celebrates the Anniversary<\/em><\/p>\n It is hard to believe that it was just 50 years ago when Hawaii officially became a part of the United States of America. The road leading up to Statehood <\/strong>was a bit bumpy, with many opposing political views, but eventually it happened on August 21, 1959.<\/p>\n An important event leading up to Statehood took place in 1954 when proponents of Statehood collected 150,000 signatures on a 3-mile-long petition <\/strong>on a huge roll of blank newsprint. They presented the petition on Bishop Street in Honolulu, and were backed by Hawaii\u2019s delegates to Congress including John Anthony Burns and Joseph Rider Farrington.<\/p>\n After World War II ended in 1945 and Republican corporate interests began to dominate Hawaii\u2019s economy, the Statehood Movement <\/strong>grew. The dominant sugar firms controlled basically everything, and these were the Big Five: \u201cCastle & Cooke, American Factors (Amfac), C. Brewer & Co, Theo H. Davies, and Alexander & Baldwin.<\/p>\n On April 4, 1950, a constitutional convention<\/strong> was convened. Soon a state constitution was presented to the US Congress and then it was put to Hawaii\u2019s voters on November 7, 1950, passing by a 3-1 margin.<\/p>\n In 1958, Alaska became a state, and this helped the Hawaiian statehood movement \u2013 it was now just a matter of time.<\/p>\n The US Senate <\/strong>approved Statehood in March of 1959, as did the House of Representatives, and it was signed by President Eisenhower on March 18, 1959.<\/p>\n A plebiscite<\/strong> of Hawaiian residents was required for approval, and this took place on June 27, 1959 when Hawaii residents approved Statehood, and the plebiscite passed 17 to 1, opposed only by Niihau. At this time there were about one-quarter million visitors coming to the Hawaiian Islands each year, and more than 600,000 residents.<\/p>\n On July 28, 1959, William Francis Quinn was elected as Hawaii\u2019s governor. The first senators were Hiram Fong <\/strong>and Ethelbert Long<\/strong>, and Daniel K. 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The Statehood Movement<\/h3>\n
Constitutional Convention<\/h3>\n