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Peninsula Enterprise
Accomac, Accomack County, Virginia
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Oklahoma shifted its capital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City in 1910 via election and legislative action after court challenges, despite a 1906 agreement to keep Guthrie until 1913.
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Oklahoma City was more centrally located, and had other advantages. It was long planned to make it the capital when Oklahoma should become a state, but as a concession to Guthrie it was written into the enabling act of 1906 and the first state Constitution that Guthrie should remain the capital until 1913. Nevertheless, an election was held in 1910, at which the people voted to make Oklahoma City the capital. A series of court contests ensued, in which both the state and federal Supreme courts were called upon to rule on the matter. The election was held invalid, but a special session of the state legislature passed a law accomplishing what the vote had failed to do, and since 1910 Oklahoma City has been the capital.
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Oklahoma
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1910
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oklahoma city has been the capital since 1910.
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Oklahoma City was more centrally located and had other advantages. It was long planned to make it the capital when Oklahoma became a state, but as a concession to Guthrie it was written into the enabling act of 1906 and the first state Constitution that Guthrie should remain the capital until 1913. An election was held in 1910, at which the people voted to make Oklahoma City the capital. A series of court contests ensued, in which both the state and federal Supreme courts ruled on the matter. The election was held invalid, but a special session of the state legislature passed a law accomplishing what the vote had failed to do.