Maine
Until 1820, Maine was part of Massachusetts. After the 1810 census, Massachusetts was allocated 20 districts. Seven Massachusetts districts (then numbered 14 through 20) were credited to Maine soon after it became a state in 1820. See District of Maine.
- At-large: 1883–1885 (obsolete)
- 1st district: 1820–1883, 1885–present
- 2nd district: 1820–1883, 1885–present
- 3rd district: 1820–1883, 1885–1963 (obsolete since the 1960 census)
- 4th district: 1820–1883, 1885–1933 (obsolete since the 1930 census)
- 5th district: 1820–1883 (obsolete since the 1880 census)
- 6th district: 1820–1863 (obsolete since the 1860 census)
- 7th district: 1820–1850 (obsolete since the 1850 census)
- 8th district: 1833–1843 (obsolete since the 1840 census)
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Famous quotes containing the word maine:
“These were such houses as the lumberers of Maine spend the winter in, in the wilderness ... the camps and the hovels for the cattle, hardly distinguishable, except that the latter had no chimney.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)