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January 2nd, 2007 at 6:50 pm
“Granted, I’m not a huge fan of swearing in on a Bible (better a copy of the state constitution) but if you have to have it, this is definitely cool.”
Even though it’s a mild slap in the face to the citizens of Lowell?
January 2nd, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Re: Traditional Exchange of Symbols in Massachusetts
Symbols or tokens are passed from the outgoing Governor to the incoming Governor-elect.
One of these symbols is the Benjamin Butler Bible. “The Butler Bible: This Bible was left by Governor Benjamin F. Butler when he departed office in 1884. Butler was unable to find a bible when he came into office; a friend gave him one to keep on his desk. On the day he left office, Butler inscribed the bible saying that it was a “needed transmittendum to my successor in office to be read by him and his successor each in turn.”
While accepting the significance of the Amistad/J.Q. Adams bible, it is disappointing that the over 120 year tradition of MA Governors being sworn-in using the Butler Bible is at an end. This is significant to those of us who preserve,promote and treasure the history of Lowell and Massachusetts.
January 2nd, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Thank You, iminthemiddle, for seeing my point. Before anyone throws down the “race” card I ask you to read this speech given by Benjamin Butler of Lowell in 1871, keeping in mind the era in which it was given, then decide if this switch is really “cool”
January 2nd, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Sorry I for got to leave the URL http://mac110.assumption.edu/aas/Manuscripts/negroinpolitics.html
January 2nd, 2007 at 9:47 pm
iminthe…Thank you for bringing that up. While I understand the significance of using the Amistad Bible, I am inclined to go with the Butler Bible.
Whatever the Bible used, he is still being sworn in to be Governor. Would it have been any differant if he had chosen to use his family Bible?
January 4th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Question:
Has the Butler Bible actually been used for the swearing-in itself, or is it strictly one of the “symbols of office” — including the pewter key to the governor’s office door, a gavel, and an 1860 copy of the Mass. General Law — passed from one Governor to the next? (http://mass.gov/lib/facts/transfer.htm)
My understanding is that elected officials can specify a particular Bible — or the Jefferson Qu’ran in the case of Minnesota Rep Keith Ellison, or even nothing at all — when taking the Oath of Affirmation. (I’m with Lynne in preferring the Constitution, myself.)
All that said, I think taking the oath of office on the Adams/Amistad Bible is a very appropriate gesture for Deval, regardless of tradition.
January 4th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Partially answering my own question:
“The Bible that George Romney held when he was sworn in as Michigan governor in 1963 was the same that Mitt Romney held in 2003 when he took the oath as Republican governor in a Democratic state (’a red dot in a blue state,’ he says.)”
http://www.detnews.com/2005/editorial/0509/25/A24-325991.htm
Nothing to see here folks; move along….