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Several Missouri connections in today’s presidential inauguration
Democrat Joe Biden has been sworn into office today as America’s 46th president. Kamala Harris has taken the oath office as America’s first female vice president and first vice president of color.
There are several Missouri connections to the event. For the second consecutive time, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt, R-Missouri, served as the chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. During today’s event, Blunt says the inauguration’s theme is “Our Determined Democracy: Forging a More Perfect Union”.
“That theme for this inauguration was announced by the joint committee before the election with the belief that the United States can only fulfill its promise and set an example for others if we are always working to be better than we have been,” says Blunt.
A Hopkinsville native was instrumental in planning the inauguration of President Joe Biden Wednesday.
According to a post on the Christian County Schools Facebook site Hopkinsville High School graduate Eugene Pool oversaw the inaugural ceremony in his role in the office of the Architect of the Capitol. Pool is a 1978 graduate of Hopkinsville High School.
The Architect of the Capitol erects the inaugural platform where President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris took the oath of office Wednesday morning. The office is also responsible for setting up seating and fencing on the Capitol grounds and coordinating other activities with the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies.
Ford Made Customized Masks for Biden, Harris Inauguration
Photo: Ford
Ford Motor Company took an active role in the inauguration of 46
th President of the United States Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, supplying 15,000 customized masks used during the proceedings. The masks, which Ford made in Michigan, feature the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies logo in the upper left corner and a 59
th Inaugural Ceremonies logo in the upper right corner.
Ford CEO Jim Farley said that providing the masks is a further demonstration of the company’s commitment to providing personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. He called it “a huge honor for Ford to support a tradition so fundamental to our democracy.”