“Despite all this, Gerry was later elected the first Republican governor of Massachusetts and then vice president under James Madison. His lasting contribution to American politics was the invention of drawing election districts to favor incumbent politicians – a practice still called gerrymandering.”

“Despite all this, Gerry was later elected the first Republican governor of Massachusetts and then vice president under James Madison. His lasting contribution to American politics was the invention of drawing election districts to favor incumbent politicians – a practice still called gerrymandering.”

— Joel Richard Paul