Maine Fast Fact: Presidential nominee Ross Perot achieved much success in Maine in the presidential elections of 1992 and 1996. Maine was Perot’s best state in 1996 when he was the nominee of the Reform Party. Births:1794: Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur in shipping and railroads and the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family1818: Amelia Bloomer, American women’s rights activist1819: Julia Ward Howe, American author, wrote the song “Battle Hymn of the...
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