[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 457]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT

  The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate the certificate 
of appointment to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of former 
Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi. The certificate, the Chair is 
advised, is in the form suggested by the Senate and contains all the 
essential requirements suggested by the Senate. If there be no 
objection, the reading of the above-mentioned certificate will be 
waived, and it will be printed in full in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

                                             State of Mississippi,


                                       Office of the Governor.

                       Certificate of Appointment

     To the President of the Senate of the United States:
       This is to certify that, pursuant to the power vested in me 
     by the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the 
     State of Mississippi, I, Haley Barbour, the Governor of said 
     State, do hereby appoint Roger F. Wicker a Senator from said 
     State to represent said State in the Senate of the United 
     States until the vacancy therein caused by the resignation of 
     Chester Trent Lott, is filled by election as provided by law.
       WITNESS: His Excellency our Governor Haley Barbour, and our 
     seal hereto affixed at Jackson, Mississippi this 31st day of 
     December, in the year of our Lord 2007.
           By the Governor:
                                                    Haley Barbour,
     Governor.

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