Which state was the last to become "FULLY" part of the US?

Question

I had heard that we still owed money for a state we purchased well after Hawaii become our 50th. Do you know what state that was?

Answer 1

There have been questions raised about the purchase of Alaska.  The 'go-between' man, between the US and Russia, apparently disappeared along with the purchase money.

In fact, James Mitchner raises the possibility in his book "Alaska" that the sale of Alaska to the US might be declared illegal in the future in a court of international law, and that Russia could possibly take it back.

Answer 2

You question is assuming that a state we hadn't paid fully for is somehow not fully a state, which of course is not a valid argument. If that state elected representatives and its citizens voted for President, and representatives of that state accepted legally via voting the US Constitution, then there is no legal way at all you could not count it fully as a state.  

Such historical technicalities abound, for example, if there is no  President, then the Vice President is the acting President...SO using that logic, and the fact that John Adams was sworn in as the VP one day before Washington was sworn in as President, then logically John Adams was technically our first President.  Of course he is in no way acknowledged as such, and neither is your supposed state not being being fully whatever.

By the way, if it is a matter of payment of what is owed, then France still owes us money (I assume with interest) from both world wars, but oh well, that's the way things go.

Answer 3

none

Answer 4

I 've heard that money sent to Mexico and Alaska came missing is that what your talking about?