[Answer] Before Idaho became a state, which state was almost named Idaho?

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...1. Washington 2. North Dakota 3. Colorado 4. New Mexico

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Colorado - Many states are named after British royals or Native American words, but it turns out that Idaho isn’t named after anything at all. The term has been traced to a Philadelphia-born man named George Willing, who fraudulently won an election in the territory that later became Colorado. Although he never took office, his idea that the territory be named “Idaho” managed to reach the U.S. senate in 1860. Realizing at the last minute that the term wasn’t a Native American word after all, Congress changed the name of the territory to Colorado, which later entered the Union as the 38th state in 1876. The “Idaho” name stuck around in popular consciousness, however, and it became the name of the new territory that broke off from the Washington territory in 1863.:

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