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Many of the activities
associated with gubernatorial inaugurations today had been
established by the 1930s. The retiring governor drove to the
governor-elect's hotel-for many years, the Hotel John Marshall
on Fifth Street-and escorted the new governor to Capitol
Square. The new governor entered a joint meeting of the two
houses of the General Assembly in the chamber of the House of
Delegates. Then the entire legislature and invited guests moved
to the south portico of the Capitol where the governor was sworn
in and delivered his inaugural address. A formal reception
followed either in the Capitol or in the governor's mansion.
Increasingly, inaugural committees planned the celebration.
In 1970 A. Linwood Holton added two events to the inauguration
mix. He attended church during the morning before the
inauguration, and his supporters held an inaugural ball. Because
the lieutenant governor and the attorney general were not always
members of the governor's political party, occasionally there
were minority party inaugural balls.
Photo courtesy of The Library of Virginia |
Photo courtesy of The Library of
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