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:
“Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called “swamping” it, and they who do the work are called “swampers.” I now perceived the fitness of the term. This was the most perfectly swamped of all the roads I ever saw. Nature must have coöperated with art here.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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 know of no scripture which records the pure benignity of the gods on a New England winter night. Their praises have never been sung, only their wrath deprecated. The best scripture, after all, records but a meagre faith. Its saints live reserved and austere. Let a brave, devout man spend the year in the woods of Maine or Labrador, and see if the Hebrew Scriptures speak adequately to his condition and experience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)