selected to represent the Creeks (as General Porter had been elected President). Muscogee journalist Alexander Posey served as secretary. The convention drafted a constitution, drew up a plan of organization for the government, put together a map showing the counties to be established, and elected delegates to go to the United States Congress to petition for statehood, along with 2 Democrats and 2 Republicans who were to serve as congressmen. On November 7, 1905, voters in the territory approved the constitution and statehood petition by 56,279 to 9,073. President Theodore Roosevelt then proposed a compromise that would join Indian Territory with Oklahoma Territory to form a single state and resulted in passage of the Oklahoma Enabling Act, which he signed June 16, 1906. Oklahoma became the 46th state on November 16, 1907. Although the State of Sequoyah never came into existence, its constitution made an important contribution to Oklahoma history by its many similarities to the later Oklahoma Constitution. They shared an underlying populist distrust of elected officials. The convention also catapulted Haskell, Murray, and others further into the public arena, securing for Indian Territory a solid seat at the debate at the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention. In fiction In the Southern Victory series by Harry Turtledove, Sequoyah is a Confederate state where the Five Civilized Tribes are granted autonomy and special protections, including restrictions on immigration to the state. After the First Great War, Sequoyah was annexed by the United States, which capitalized on its oil deposits. When plebiscites were held in 1941 in the former Confederate states of Kentucky, Houston, and Sequoyah, only Sequoyah voted to remain a part of the United States as a result of the migration of US citizens to the state. That served as the casus belli for conflict in North America during the Second Great War. See also Cherokee Commission Former Indian reservations in Oklahoma Hitchcock County, Sequoyah Pushmataha County, Sequoyah References External links Large map showing the Oklahoma and Indian Territories in 1895 Oklahoma Digital Maps: Digital Collections of Oklahoma and Indian Territory 1900s in Indian Territory Pre-statehood history of Oklahoma Sequoyah 1900s in Oklahoma Territory Native American nationalism