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To: jlallen who wrote (318626)	1/4/2007 6:40:09 PM
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Patrick sworn in as Mass. governor By GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer 40 minutes ago BOSTON - Deval Patrick, the second black in U.S. history to be elected governor, was sworn in Thursday, taking the oath of office with his hand on a Bible that was given to John Quincy Adams by slaves he helped free in the Amistad affair. "I am descended from people once forbidden their most basic and fundamental freedoms, a people desperate for hope and willing to fight for it — and so are you," the 50-year-old Democrat said from the Statehouse steps to a crowd of thousands that stretched into Boston Common. The weather was springlike for Massachusetts' first outdoor inaugural, the culmination of Patrick's longshot campaign to succeed Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, who is considering running for president in 2008 and did not seek a second term. Patrick borrowed the Bible from the Adams National Historic Park in Quincy for the ceremony. Adams, the nation's sixth president, received it from Africans on the slave ship Amistad after he won their freedom in 1841 in a celebrated legal case. Among those looking on was L. Douglas Wilder, who in 1990 became the nation's first black elected governor when he was inaugurated in Virginia. He is now mayor of Richmond, Va. Romney did not attend the ceremonies, having left the building Wednesday night after taking a tradition-laden "lone walk" down the Statehouse steps. He said the governor's address was "fine and moving." Patrick grew up poor on Chicago's South Side, attended Harvard and its law school, then worked as a civil rights lawyer for the poor. Later he worked for a corporate law firm in Boston. During the Clinton administration, he led the Justice Department's civil rights division. He later became an executive at Texaco Inc. and Coca-Cola Co. Patrick's inauguration ended a 16-year run of Republican rule in Massachusetts. news.yahoo.com