Alaska, a constituent state of the United States of America, was admitted to the union as the 49th state on January 3, 1959. Prior to that, Alaska had been a U.S. possession since 1867. Alaskans voted in favor of statehood in 1946, and in 1958 the U.S. Congress approved the Alaska statehood bill.
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