Alaska
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The forty-ninth state to enter into the United States of America, doing so in 1959. Alaska is not contiguous to the rest of the United States, bordering Canada's Yukon Territory to the east. Its capital is Juneau.
Alaska's territory was purchased from Russia in 1867 by the Johnson administration for 7.2 million USD; its vast oil and gold reserves have more than repaid the investment that was once ridiculed as "Seward's Folly."
As one of the smallest states by population, Alaska has only one representative in the House, and thus three votes in the Electoral College. Its current governor is Sarah Palin.