A voting district shaped like a salamander gave us the word 'gerrymander'

In 1812, Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry signed a law redrawing state senate districts to favour his own party. One district was so contorted that a Boston Gazette cartoon drew it as a winged monster, a 'Gerry-mander'. The trick of drawing boundaries to pack or split opponents' voters still carries his name, though he pronounced it with a hard G.

— Wikipedia contributors, Gerrymandering — Boston Gazette cartoon, March 1812