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A fact from Silvio O. Conte appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 August 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Silvio O. Conte was a U.S. Congressman who once donned a pig mask in order to protest pork barrel spending?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/August.

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Accuracy[edit]

(1) The first paragraph claims that Conte served in Congress for "16" terms. In the second paragraph his service was for "seventeen consecutive" terms. Which is correct?

(2) The article describes Conte as "the only member of Congress who lacked an opponent in the 1964 election"—a highly unlikely assertion. Check it out. Additionally, "Congress" means both the House and the Senate, and at least in the Senate John Stennis was unopposed that year in both the Democratic primary and the general election. Maybe the quoted statement intended to mean that in 1964 Conte was the only unopposed individual among the congressional candidates in Massachusetts, but that is not what the statement actually says.

Rammer (talk) 20:00, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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