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| | Office of Vermont Secretary of State Deb Markowitz -- State Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | After the Fourth Congressional District took eleven elections (1830 to 1832) to choose their Representative, the law was changed in 1832 so that if no majority winner emerged after two elections, a plurality would carry the third election. |
 | | It was ratified in Vermont by a convention of delegates of the people held on January 10, 1791; and by an act which Congress approved on February 18, 1791, Vermont became the fourteenth state of the Union on March 4, 1791. |
 | | Vermont, hoping for three representatives, on January 27, 1791 designated Bennington and Windham counties; Windsor and Orange counties; and Rutland, Addison, and Chittenden counties as the three congressional districts for Vermont. |
| vermont-archives.org /govhistory/elect/results3/rep1.htm (1190 words) |
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