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When were Alaska and Hawaii added as states after? Both became US States in 1959, Hawaii as #50 and Alaska as #49 and they were preceded by Arizona as #48. Making the world better, one answer at a time.
1 Russian whalers and fur traders on Kodiak Island established the first settlement in Alaska in 1784. 2  In 1867 United States Secretary of State William H. Seward offered Russia $7,200,000, or two cents per acre, for Alaska. 3  On October 18, 1867 Alaska officially became the property of the United States.