{"id":92341,"date":"2014-11-01T22:09:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T03:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/?p=92341"},"modified":"2014-11-01T22:09:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T03:09:45","slug":"north-dakota-celebrates-125-years-of-statehood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/92341\/north-dakota-celebrates-125-years-of-statehood","title":{"rendered":"North Dakota Celebrates 125 Years of Statehood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Capitol Building (Image Courtesy: State Historical Society of North Dakota)<\/p><\/div>\n

On November 2, North Dakota celebrates 125 years of statehood. On that date in 1889, North Dakota\u00a0officially entered the union as the 39th state,\u00a0along with its southern neighbor, who entered as the 40th state.<\/p>\n

Upon entering statehood, Bismarck assumed its role as capital of the new state… a role that it earned in 1883 after the capital of Dakota Territory was relocated from Yankton in present-day South Dakota. The capital was relocated in large part due to efforts taken by Alexander McKenzie<\/a>, a prominent local political boss.<\/p>\n

The original Capitol<\/a> burned to the ground on December 28, 1930 – only weeks before the legislature was to\u00a0assemble and in the midst of the Great Depression. The fire was\u00a0triggered by spontaneous combustion from a pile of turpentine- and varnish-soaked rags used in preparation of the upcoming legislative assembly.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the original Capitol’s destruction, Jamestown petitioned unsuccessfully to become the state’s new capital.<\/p>\n

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Fire Consumes Original Capitol (Image Courtesy: State Historical Society of North Dakota)<\/p><\/div>\n

Construction of a replacement\u00a0Capitol building commenced within months of the original’s destruction and, when completed in 1934, towered the capital as the state’s tallest building… a distinction it still holds today.<\/p>\n

The current 19-story Capitol building’s art deco skyscraper design was chosen in large part due to economics in the midst of America’s worst economic depression.<\/p>\n

John Miller served as\u00a0North Dakota’s first governor. Jack Dalrymple\u00a0currently holds the position. Other notable\u00a0figures to have held the position have included Frank White, John Burke, Lynn Frazier, William “Wild Bill” Langer<\/a>,\u00a0Fred Aandahl,\u00a0Arthur Link,\u00a0Ed Schafer, and John Hoeven.<\/p>\n

Learn more about\u00a0Bismarck History<\/a>\u00a0and its role in North Dakota’s own history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On November 2, North Dakota celebrates 125 years of statehood. On that date in 1889, North Dakota\u00a0officially entered the union as the 39th state,\u00a0along with its southern neighbor, who entered as the 40th state. Upon entering statehood, Bismarck assumed its role as capital of the new state… a role that it earned in 1883 after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,216,364,1036],"tags":[329,852,1981,1063,150,1983,1064,1982],"class_list":["post-92341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bismarck-news","category-featured","category-home-page","category-north-dakota-news","tag-alexander-mckenzie","tag-bismarck-history","tag-dakota-territory","tag-home","tag-north-dakota","tag-north-dakota-history","tag-ticker","tag-yankton"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}