Statehood for the territory was a recurring issue during the Ulysses Grant administration, with Grant advocating statehood against a less willing Congress during Reconstruction.

He advocated statehood for the Territory of Alaska and building a dam on the Cook Inlet causeway.

President Grant advocated statehood for the territory in 1870, but Congress did not act.

McCarthy also railed against the land policies of the Big Five and was the first governor to advocate statehood for Hawaii.

In the last year, however, the front has begun to advocate full independent statehood for Latvia.

By then, divisions were created between those who advocated statehood within the United States (the Federalistas) and those who advocated independence (the Independistas).

Puerto Ricans, including those advocating statehood, consider themselves a people with a strong national identity.

But Mr. Giuliani is not advocating statehood.

He commended Mr. Jackson for being "very substantive" in advocating statehood.

Most Arab states had long advocated Palestinian statehood, but more in pursuit of domestic or pan-Arab aims, rather than the immediate "liberation" of Palestine.