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This Day in Minnesota History

January 15, 1849

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Henry H. Sibley is admitted to Congress as the delegate of Wisconsin Territory. This title was remarkable, for the bulk of Wisconsin Territory had already been formed into a state, but the citizens of the remaining part, St. Croix County, had sent Sibley to Washington to represent them.

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