Arizona Territory

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Territory of Arizona
Organized incorporated territory of the United States
1863–1912
Flag of the United States (1908–1912)
Map of the Arizona and New Mexico Territories, showing existing counties
Capital	Fort Whipple (1863–64) Prescott (1864–67) Tucson (1867–77) Prescott (1877–89) Phoenix (1889– )
Government
• Type	Organized incorporated territory
Governor
• 1863–1866	John Noble Goodwin
• 1909–1912	Richard Elihu Sloan
Legislature	Arizona Territorial Legislature
History
• Arizona Organic Act	24 February 1863
• Statehood of Arizona	14 February 1912
Preceded by Succeeded by New Mexico Territory Confederate Arizona Arizona Nevada

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The Territory of Arizona, commonly known as the Arizona Territory, was a territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863,^[1] until February 14, 1912, when the remaining extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Arizona. It was created from the western half of the New Mexico Territory during the American Civil War.