On July 4th in U S Political History
Part VIII
Part VIII
On July 4th in 1889 North Dakota founders began drafting a constitution but left out a key requirement that the governor and other top officials take an oath of office, putting the state constitution in conflict with the federal one.
On July 4th in 1889 Washington state constitutional convention held 1st meeting.
On July 4th in 1894 The Provisional Government under Judge Stanford B. Dole declared Hawaii a republic.
On July 4th in 1895 The words to "America the Beautiful" appeared for the first time in "The Congregationalist", a Boston magazine; the author was Katherine Lee Bates, a Wellesley professor, who penned it in 1893. In 1904 Clarence Barbour adapted it to the melody of Samuel Ward’s “Materna”. Bates’ final version was completed in 1911.
On July 4th in 1898 A US flag was hoisted over Wake Island during the Spanish-American War.
On July 4th in 1901 William H. Taft, later the 27th President of the United States, became the American territorial governor of the Philippines. Taft soon appointed Prof. Bernard Moses secretary of public instruction for the Philippines. Taft, who had been solicitor general of the U.S. under President Benjamin Harrison, was a federal circuit court judge when President William McKinley appointed him to serve as president of the U.S. Philippines Commission in 1900-01. Later in 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt named Taft the first civil governor of the Philippines Islands, a post he held for four years. Roosevelt named Taft secretary of war in 1904. A Republican, Taft was president from 1909 to 1913 and Supreme Court Chief Justice from 1921 to 1930.
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