Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1912 — MAKING THE FORTY-EIGHTH STATE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAKING THE FORTY-EIGHTH STATE

PRESIDENT TAFT signing the trill that made Arizona the forty-eighth state in the Union. Left to right in the picture standing back of the president are: Gen. E. S. Godfrey, W. A. Dupuy, M. R. Loring, Delegate Ralph Cameron, S. P. L. Hubbell, James T. Williams, Special Messenger and new Secretary of State of Arizona Roland B. Kirk, Charles Wilde and Charles D. Hilles, the president’s secretary.