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These "memorials" presented by various citizens or Leavenworth County, Kansas Territory, to the United States Congress and referred by them to the Committee on Territories, were written in a petition style, with the names of supporters signed at their conclusion, and requested the immediate admission of Kansas Territory to the Union under the Constitution framed by the Topeka Legislature. Following the three memorials is a copy of the proposed Constitution, as approved by James Lane and Joel Goodin, respectively President and Secretary of the Topeka Constitutional Convention. Found in Senate Miscellaneous Documents, 34th Congress, 1st and 2nd sessions Document No. 32, Three Memorials of the Citizens of . . .Leavenworth County. . .Praying the immediate admission of Kansas Territory into the Union as a State
Date: March 24, 1856
Item Number: 5717
Call Number: 506 Un3 Serial Document 835
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 5717
Collections - Library
Date - 1854-1860 - 1856
Education
Government and Politics - Elections
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Congress - Senate
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Constitution Making - Topeka Constitution
Military - Service - Militias
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Handbill
People - Notable Kansans - Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866
People - Notable Kansans - Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Printed materials - Government publications - Legislative
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/5717