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This month's featured document is the
Concurrent Resolution on the death of President Abraham Lincoln
Originally part of the New Mexico Territory, Arizona sought separate territorial status as early as 29 August 1856. However, it was not until President Abraham Lincoln signed the law creating the Territory of Arizona on 24 February 1863 that Arizona was on its way to separate territorial status. Finally, Arizona became a territory, separate from New Mexico, on 29 December 1863. Fourteen months later, on 14 April 1865, President Lincoln was at the Ford's Theatre, in Washington D.C., when John Wilkes Booth, an actor, shot and killed him. This document is the official expression of Arizona Territory's sentiments on the assassination of the president who gave Arizona its territorial status.
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