In 1947, the House Committee on Public Lands held hearings on a statehood bill and it passed the committee, but no floor action was taken. President Truman stuck by his Alaskan commitments, however, and sent a 1948 message to Congress devoted wholly to urging it to grant Alaska statehood. On March 3, 1950, the House of Representatives passed an Alaska statehood bill with a vote of 186 to 146. Now Alaska statehood was in the hands of the exclusive club of the U.S. Senate.
