I can only speak for California: bar numbers are determined by admission. So, the first California State Bar member's number was 1. As of this posting (6/27/2012) there are 283,875 members, so for a long while California attorneys are going to have 6 digits to their bar numbers. Other states likely follow a similar trend, so their numbers will vary based on population.
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World War II was over September 2, 1945 when the Japanese government signed the surrender documents while aboard the battleship USS Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay.