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The admission of Iowa, its borders extended west to the Missouri, on December 28, 1846, offsets one of the two previous slave state additions.
Extensive flooding sweeps across the Midwestern United States in the Great Flood of 1851, from Mid-May to mid-July.
The town of Des Moines, Iowa, is virtually washed away, and many rainfall records will hold for one hundred and sixty years.
The town of Des Moines, Iowa, is virtually washed away, and many rainfall records will hold for one hundred and sixty years.
Arabella Mansfield becomes the first female lawyer in the United States when she is admitted to the Iowa bar in 1869.
Mansfield (May 23, 1846 – August 1, 1911), née Belle Aurelia Babb, a native of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, had been allowed to take the bar exam and passed with high scores, despite a state law restricting applicants to white males over twenty-one.
Shortly after Mansfield passes the exam, Iowa amends its bar licensing statute and becomes the first state to allow women and minorities into its bar, with the Court ruling that women may not be denied the right to practice law in Iowa.