| The Green Papers: State and Local Government |
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States Alphabetically Current West Virginia Statewide Office Holders
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| The STATE of West Virginia | |
| Status: STATE of the Union | |
| previously, the northwestern portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia that had- unlike the rest of that State- remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War | |
| Admitted to the Union as a State: 20 June 1863 through Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln on 20 April 1863 (13 Stat. 731) that the conditions set forth in the Enabling Act had been satisfactorily met | |
| The 35th state. | |
| Traditional Sections and Regions All States | |
| Section: SOUTH | |
| Region: Upper ["Border"] South | |
| Survey: Metes & Bounds | |
| Constitutions All States Links to State Constitutions | |
| Enabling Act (of the Congress of the United States): 31 December 1862 [12 Stat. 633: recognizing a State government already formed with Admission pending the meeting of specific conditions set by this Enabling Act [NOTE: prior to its first State Constitutional Convention first meeting in November 1861, an earlier State Convention (on 20 August 1861) had adopted an ordinance of secession from Virginia under the name of the 'State of KANAWHA' (this ordinance was later ratified by the People- on 24 October 1861- by a vote of 18,408 to 781); the 1st Constitution, however, formally adopted the name 'State of WEST VIRGINIA']] | |
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