Delaware’s 21 Senators and 411 Representatives meet and office in the Legislative Hall which is part of the Capitol Square Complex in Dover. It opened in 1933 and was expanded in 1970 and 1994. Its brick, colonial style is appropriate given the city’s history. In 1681, King Charles II gave William Penn land in the new world. A year later, he established his Quaker government in Pennsylvania, the city of Philadelphia, and Delaware. He was an early advocate of a union among the colonies. However, it took over 100 years before the brave assembly in Dover was the first to ratify the US Constitution and thus become the first state.
