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In 1859, a South African declared himself emperor of the United States
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- MilnerRoute 1y agoVincent Price once did a movie called "The Baron of Arizona," about a 19th-century scammer who claimed title to a large chunk of the southwest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baron_of_Arizona https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baron_of_Arizona Back when state boundaries were still in flux. (Maybe we should think of this as the "Aaron Burr" era...)