"There may be some virtue in avoiding the obvious, and I appreciate your point about how a complicating factor is that some people were born in other states than those with which they're legitimately identified," wrote Wayne Pomerleau. "Here are two cases in point: It seems to me to be obligatory that Abraham Lincoln (born in Kentucky) should be selected for Illinois; likewise that Benjamin Franklin (born in Boston) should be the one for Pennsylvania." 

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