[United States Senate Manual, 117th Congress]
[S. Doc. 117-1]
[Statistical Data]
[Page 750]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


[[Page 750]]

                                       [1990]
 
                RATIFICATION\1\ OF THE CONSTITUTION BY THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL STATES
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                                        Date of            Votes cast       Population at                    Area in
              State               ratification of the --------------------     date of       Population,     square                 Remarks
                                      Constitution       Yeas      Nays     ratification     2020 census      miles
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Delaware........................  Dec. 7, 1787.......     \2\30  ........          59,096         989,948       2,045  .................................
Pennsylvania....................  Dec. 12, 1787......        46        23         434,373      13,002,700      45,308  .................................
New Jersey......................  Dec. 18, 1787......     \2\38  ........         184,139       9,288,994       7,787  .................................
Georgia.........................  Jan. 2, 1788.......     \2\26  ........          82,548      10,711,908      58,910  Seceded Jan. 19, 1861. Readmitted
                                                                                                                        to representation by the act of
                                                                                                                        July 15, 1870.
Connecticut.....................  Jan. 9, 1788.......       128        40         238,141       3,605,944       5,018  .................................
Massachusetts...................  Feb. 6, 1788.......       187       168         378,787       7,029,917       8,284  .................................
Maryland........................  Apr. 28, 1788......        63        11         319,728       6,177,224      10,460  .................................
South Carolina..................  May 23, 1788.......       149        73         249,073       5,118,425      31,113  Seceded Dec. 20, 1860. Readmitted
                                                                                                                        to representation upon ratifying
                                                                                                                        the Fourteenth Amendment, July
                                                                                                                        9, 1868.
New Hampshire...................  June 21, 1788......        57        46         141,899       1,377,529       9,279  .................................
Virginia........................  June 25, 1788......        89        79         747,610       8,631,393   \3\40,767  Seceded Apr. 17, 1861. Readmitted
                                                                                                                        to representation by the act of
                                                                                                                        Jan. 26, 1870.
New York........................  July 26, 1788......        30        27         340,120      20,201,249      49,108  .................................
North Carolina..................  Nov. 21, 1789......       184        77         393,751      10,439,388      52,669  Seceded May 21, 1861. Readmitted
                                                                                                                        to representation upon ratifying
                                                                                                                        the Fourteenth Amendment, July
                                                                                                                        4, 1868.
Rhode Island....................  May 29, 1790.......        34        32          68,825       1,097,379       1,212  .................................
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\1\The Constitution was adopted by Convention of the States, Sept. 17, 1787, and was subsequently ratified by the several States in the order listed.
\2\Unanimous.
\3\The area of Virginia at the date of ratification was 61,352 square miles, but Dec. 31, 1862, a portion of its territory was set off and admitted into
  the Union as a free and independent State under the name of West Virginia.