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According to Wikipedia:

"Statehood was rushed to the date of October 31 to help ensure Abraham Lincoln's reelection on November 8 and post-Civil War Republican dominance in Congress,[21] as Nevada's mining-based economy tied it to the more industrialized Union."

(source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada)

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