[smoothsailing]

Ike.

July 7, 1958-Eisenhower signs a bill making Alaska the forty-ninth state.

And history was made. It was only a matter of time before Governor Sarah Palin would come along! :o)

[dfwgator]

July 7, 1958-Eisenhower signs a bill making Alaska the forty-ninth state. And history was made. It was only a matter of time before Governor Sarah Palin would come along! :o)

And then in 1959, Hawaii became the fiftieth state, and then Obama came along.