President Abraham Lincoln signed the West Virginia statehood bill on December 31, 1862.
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Accounts of Lincoln's Signing of the Statehood
Bill
Lincoln Approves the Statehood Bill
Opinion of Abraham Lincoln on the Admission of
West Virginia
"Lincoln and the Vast Question of West
Virginia"
Lincoln's Statehood Proclamation
West Virginia Statehood
Document-Based Questions
On This Day in West Virginia History: December
