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| State Home Page: | | http://www.state.nh.us/ | | Capital: | | Concord | | Year Admitted to Union: | | 1787 - 9th of the original 13 | | Population: | | 1,309,940 (2005) |
| Density: | | 137.8 persons per sq. mi. (20th) | | Per Capita Income: | | $34,703 (7th) | | Land Area: | | 9,279 sq mi (44th) | | Percent of Land Federally Owned: | | 13.2 | | Governor: | | John Lynch |
| Lottery start-up year: | | 1964 | |
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| | Ethnicity | | White persons: | | 1,258,852 (96.1%) |
| Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin: | | 28,819 (2.2%) |
| African-American or Black persons: | | 13,099 (1%) |
| American Indian & Alaska Native persons: | | 2,620 (0.2%) |
| Asian, Pacific Islander & Native Hawaiian persons: | | 22,269 (1.7%) |
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| | Legislature | | Seats in House: | | 400 | | Seats in Senate: | | 24 | | Number of Constitutions: | | 2 | | Effective Date of Present Constitution: | |
June 2, 1784 | | U.S. Congressional Representatives: | | 2 | | Curious Facts:
| | New Hampshire cast the decisive vote on June 21, 1788, that put the Constitution into effect.In 1952 New Hampshire introduced the nation's first presidential primary election. |
| | | In 1774 New Hampshire
became the first state to declare itself independent from England. | | | | In 1833 the first free
public library in the United States was established in Peterborough,
New Hampshire. | | | | The State House of Representatives is the third-largest parliamentary body in the English-speaking world, second only to the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament. | |
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