George W.P. Hunt, who would become Arizona's first governor, was instrumental in guiding it toward statehood in the early 1900s.

Meet the four-year-old “genius” can identify all 50 US states on a map – as well as all the major cities in the UK and name all 195 flags of the world. Arthur Weekley has been interested in flags ...

It’s not clear if Canada wants to become a U.S. state, though technically it would be possible without its buy-in ...