maybe did some lines before going on stage.
Or maybe he lives in the past.
Ohio was not officially declared a state until August 7, 1953, because Congress forgot to pass a formal admission resolution in 1803.
In 1802, Congress approved the Enabling Act, allowing Ohio to write a state constitution. On February 19, 1803, President Thomas Jefferson approved a federal act enforcing U.S. laws in Ohio. However, Congress never passed the official joint resolution declaring Ohio the 17th state.
Despite the missing document, Ohio functioned fully as a state. It sent representatives to Congress, voted in presidential elections, and paid federal taxes for a century and a half.
When Ohio schoolteachers and researchers went to the Library of Congress to dig up the original statehood decree for Ohio's 150th anniversary, they found a blank space in the archives.
To fix it, Ohio officials had to carry out a symbolic rescue mission.
Ohio Congressman George H. Bender introduced a bill in January 1953 to formally admit Ohio to the Union.
Congress passed the bill, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed it into law on August 7, 1953.
To ensure 150 years of legislation and voting remained legally airtight, the law specified that Ohio’s statehood was retroactive to March 1, 1803 (the date Ohio’s first state legislature met;)
