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2-letter codes used by the United States Coast Guard (bold red text shows differences between ANSI and USCG) Abbreviations: GPO. Older variable-length official US Government Printing Office abbreviations. AP. Abbreviations from the AP Stylebook (bold red text shows differences between GPO and AP) Name and status of region. ISO.
FIPS state codes were numeric and two-letter alphabetic codes defined in U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard Publication ("FIPS PUB") 5-2 to identify U.S. states and certain other associated areas. The standard superseded FIPS PUB 5-1 on May 28, 1987, and was superseded on September 2, 2008, by ANSI standard INCITS 38:2009.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts; List of Massachusetts-related topics; List of U.S. state minerals, rocks, stones and gemstones; Lists of United States state insignia; Sacred Cod; Notes. Chapter 162 of the Acts of 1997: An Act Designating the Song "The Great State of Massachusetts" as the State Glee Club Song
Massachusetts is the sixth-smallest state by land area. With over seven million residents as of 2020, [note 1] it is the most populous state in New England, the 16th-most-populous in the country, and the third-most densely populated, after New Jersey and Rhode Island. Massachusetts was a site of early English colonization.
The secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a constitutional officer in the executive branch of the U.S. state of Massachusetts.Originally appointed under authority of the English Crown pursuant to the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company, the office of secretary of the Commonwealth (equivalent to "secretaries of state" in other U.S. jurisdictions) became an elective one in 1780.
First elected in 1902. First elected in 1992. Resigned to become Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Lowell . First elected in 1814. Lost re-election to Samuel Lathrop . First elected to finish Charles Q. Tirrell's term. Lost re-election to William H. Wilder . First elected to finish John W. Weeks's term.
List of U.S. states. The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution.
The seal uses the coat of arms of Massachusetts as its central element. [2] An official emblem of the state, the coat of arms was adopted by the Legislature in 1775 and then reaffirmed by Governor John Hancock and his Council in 1780. The present rendition of the seal was drawn by resident-artist Edmund H. Garrett and was adopted by the state ...