Trivia

Why is Barack Obama the 44th president but the 45th in Maine?

Answer

In 1680 the Massachusetts Bay Colony named Thomas Danforth as the first president of the “District of Mayne” to govern the region surrounding Falmouth, as Portland was then called.

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