August 21, 1959. Hawaii is admitted to the Union as the 50th state. The document above certifies the election of Daniel K. Inouye to the 86th Congress as the new State of Hawaii’s first voting member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
More here, via the National Archives and Records Administration.
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