import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import pandas as pd

url = 'https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states'
url_get = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(url_get.content, 'html.parser')
table = soup.find('div', id="mw-content-text")
table = table.find('table')
with open('table.html', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    f.write(str(table))

states = pd.read_html('table.html', header=0)
states[0]