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This being done, Senator Jeffrey H. Butland of Cumberland, was duly elected President of the Senate of the 117th Legislature. The Senator from Oxford, Senator Hanley (...) escorted the President-elect to the Governor's Office for the purpose of taking and subscribing to the necessary oaths of office to qualify him to enter upon the discharge of the duties of the Office of the President of the Senate.
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