[ApplegateRanch]

And Ohio --SEVEN presidents were born there, starting with Useless Grant-- was not offiically ratified for admission to the union until 1953. It was BACKDATED to the old date. Legally, until 1953 it was [maybe] a TERRITORY, then suddenly was declared to have been a state since 1803, via the Bender Act.

Legal error? Undoubtedly, people go to (or stay out of) jail every day due to legal errors.

They really would not want to open this question, if it were a real question, rather than simple $h!t-stirring.

The 1 March 1803 date of Admission to Statehood has only been official since the adoption of the Bender Ohio Statehood Act of 7 August 1953; the rest of the [specious?] story

[ApplegateRanch]

I blew the link above