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Updated: June 27, 2025
Colonel Orr had one hundred and twenty-eight votes, and was declared elected. Governor Banks and A. H. Stephens were appointed a committee to conduct the Speaker-elect to the chair.
Magnanimity is not a prominent ingredient in political character, and some factious objections were made, by Mr. Aiken soon put a stop to them. Rising with that dignity peculiar to wealthy and portly gentlemen of ripe years, he requested permission to conduct the Speaker-elect to the chair.
He had known many years of legislative service, and was long "the father of the House." One of the features of its successive organization, as many old members will recall, was the administration of the official oath to the Speaker-elect by the member who had known the longest continuous service "the gentleman from Pennsylvania."
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