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On this day in 1848 an all-night session in the U.S. Senate in which the question of Oregon's admittance to the Union as a territory was hotly debated. Southern Senators were in opposition because of the bill's anti-slavery provision. On the following day, August 14, Congress finally passed the bill, an "Act to establish the Territorial Government of Oregon," and it was signed into law by President Polk who then appointed General Joseph Lane as Governor and Joseph Meek as U.S. Marshall as well as naming the Secretary, Attorney and three Justices of the Supreme Court.
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