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I was first elected to the legislature in two thousand two. I was twenty six years old

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Hannah Pingree, at Maine Governor General Election Debate (Maine Public)

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Why we checked itSpecific claim about the year she was first elected and her age at the time — both verifiable against public records
What we foundThe 2002 election date is confirmed by multiple independent sources, but the age claim of 26 is contradicted by Pingree's own campaign materials, which consistently state she was 25 when first elected — though she turned 26 in October 1976, just weeks before the November 2002 election.
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