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From Archives: Our governors `do solemnly swear’

From Archives: Our governors `do solemnly swear’

If you’ve watched a governor or other statewide elected official being sworn in during the first week of a legislative session, you’ve noticed that the Supreme Court justice reads the oath as he or she swears in that official, and then both of them sign that document.  Then it’s on to the next official and justice, and so on. But what happens to the oath of office documents afterward? They eventually wind up with the State Archives for safekeeping. In…

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When voting age was lowered to 18

When voting age was lowered to 18

Two of Secretary Reed’s passions – history and voting – literally came together in his office Monday as he reminisced with other key players in Washington’s role to allow 18-year-olds to vote. Reed joined former Gov. Mike Lowry, Ian McGowan, Mark Brown and Wendy Bowen in a roundtable discussion in the Secretary’s office to relive memories of their successful effort to persuade the state Legislature in 1971 to ratify the U.S. Constitution’s 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from…

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