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Oregon Secretary Of State To Be Sworn In As Governor

Kate Brown spoke Saturday at an Oregon Historical Society-hosted "birthday party" for the state.
Courtney Sherwood
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Northwest News Network
Kate Brown spoke Saturday at an Oregon Historical Society-hosted "birthday party" for the state.

Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown will be sworn in as governor Wednesday morning.

She succeeds John Kitzhaber, who resigns the same day, effective 10 a.m.

It's not expected to be a typical inauguration. There won't be sort of the pomp and tone of celebration that accompanies a normal swearing-in of a governor.

Kate Brown may be happy, on one level, to become the governor, there's unlikely to be a feeling of celebration.

Kitzhaber resigned under pressure, and under criminal investigation. He's accused of looking the other way as his fiancee, Cylvia Hayes, was paid by interest groups that wanted to use her influence to advance their legislative agendas.

Copyright 2015 Northwest News Network

Chris Lehman graduated from Temple University with a journalism degree in 1997. He landed his first job less than a month later, producing arts stories for Red River Public Radio in Shreveport, Louisiana. Three years later he headed north to DeKalb, Illinois, where he worked as a reporter and announcer for NPR–affiliate WNIJ–FM. In 2006 he headed west to become the Salem Correspondent for the Northwest News Network.