GUTHRIE — "Good morning, and happy birthday, Oklahoma,” Lt Gov. Jari Askins said this morning, 100 years since the state was admitted to the union.
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Askins spoke on the front steps of the Carnegie Library, where Statehood Day ceremonies of 1907 were re-enacted.
The library was the site of the ceremonies 100 years ago.
"Today, we take the first step toward our next 100 years. May God bless each of us, and may God continue His blessing on the state of Oklahoma,” Askins said
The ceremony included reading of the statehood proclamation of 1907 signed by President Roosevelt, a symbolic wedding of Miss Indian Territory and Mr. Oklahoma Territory, and re-enactments of the appointments of U.S. senators and the inauguration of Oklahoma's first governor, Charles Haskell.
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