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The largest confirmation class in the history of the Church was the class of Jan. 25, 1903, when thirty-eight persons were confirmed. During a rectorship of less than three and one half years, the Rev. Mr. Middleton presented 90 persons to the Bishop for confirmation. Only four Rectors have ever pre- sented a larger number. There were 98, 99, 148 and 160 per- sons confirmed during the respective rectorships of the Rev. Messrs. Russell, Stoddard, Wayne and Bodley.
From this it appears, that the present Rector has presented more persons to the Bishop for confirmation than has any other minister in the history of the Church. The number that he has thus presented is ten more than the entire number presented by the first eight ministers, during the first twenty-five years after the organization of St. Mark's Church.
The financial reports of the parish in the Journal of Conven- tion for 1906 give the entire parish expenses as $5,051.02. About 1840, the entire amount of such expenses was about $400.00 of which the missionary society paid $150.00, leaving only about $250.00 that was raised by the parish. In 1906, the offerings of the parish for Diocesan and other general pur- poses amounted to $470.42. The offering for missionary and charitable contributions in 1841 amounted to only $19.75. How insignificant the parish expenses and offerings of 1841 appear! But they were not so in fact, for there are now about thirty times as many communicants as there were in 1841, and if the parish was now as liberal in proportion to its numbers, the ordinary annual expenses of the parish would be about $9,000, and the yearly offerings would be nearly a third larger than at present.
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MINISTERS OF ST. MARK'S CHURCH
BRIEF MENTION
I. Rev. Nathaniel Sheldon Wheaton, D.D., Rector from June 19, 1836 to April 16, 1837.
Service, 9 months and II days.
2. Rev. Thomas Jefferson Davis, Rector from April 23, 1837, to June 1, 1838.
Service, I year, I month and 8 days.
3. Rev. Zebediah Hyde Mansfield, Deacon, Minister in charge from June 12, 1838, to Nov. 25, 1838.
Service, 5 months and 2 weeks.
4. Rev. John Marshall Guion, S.T.D., Officiating Minister from Dec. 2, 1838. Is called Rector in the Parochial reports for 1839 and afterwards so called in the Parish Records. Resignation accepted Dec. 29, 1845.
Service, 7 years and I month.
5. Rev. Charles Richmond Fisher, M.A., Deacon. Minister in charge from Dec. 29, 1845, to Easter (April 12,) 1846. Service, 3 months and 13 days.
6. Rev. Abner Jackson, D.D., LL.D., Rector from April 19, 1846, to Nov. 19, 1848.
Service, 2 years and 7 months.
7. Rev. Alexander Capron, Deacon. Rector-elect from Nov. 26, 1848, until ordained Priest, Feb. 26, 1850, then Rector to Easter (April 8,) 1855.
Service, 6 years, 4 months and 12 days.
Vacancy, 3 weeks.
8. Rev. Francis Thayer Russell, M.A., S.T.D., Deacon. Rector-elect from May 6, 1855, until ordained Priest, March 12, 1856, then Rector to March 26, 1864.
Service, 8 years, 9 months and 20 days.
Vacancy, 7 months.
9. Rev. Leonidas Bradley Baldwin, Rector from Oct. 1, 1864, to Aug. 1, 1870.
Service, 5 years and 9 months.
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Vacancy, 8 and one half months.
IO. Rev. John Cavarly Middleton, S.T.D., Rector from April 16, 1871, to Sept. 9, 1874.
Service, 3 years, 4 months and 23 days.
Vacancy, 6 months.
II. Rev. John Hetherington Drumm, M.D., D.D., Rector from March 17, 1875, to March 31, 1877.
Service, 2 years and 2 weeks.
12. Rev. William Edward Snowden, Rector from April 10, 1877, to May 1, 1880.
Service, 3 years and 21 days.
Vacancy, 4 months and II days.
13. Rev. John Henry Rogers, Rector from Sept. 12, 1880, to his decease, Jan. 23, 1886.
Service, 5 years, 4 months and II days.
Vacancy, 2 months and 8 days.
14. Rev. James Stoddard, Rector from April 1, 1886, to July 1, 1892.
Service, 6 years and 3 months.
Vacancy, I year and 3 months.
15. Rev. Henry Nicoll Wayne, Rector from Oct. 1, 1893 to July 1, 1899.
Service, 5 years and 9 months.
Vacancy, I month.
16. Rev. Harry Innes Bodley, Rector from Aug. 1, 1899.
Total vacancy between 1854 and 1900, 3 years and 9 months.
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REV. NATHANIEL SHELDON WHEATON, D.D.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
REV. NATHANIEL S. WHEATON, D.D.
Nathaniel Sheldon, a son of Sylvester and Mercy (Sperry,) Wheaton, was born at Washington, Conn., Aug. 20, 1792, died in peace and hope on March 18, 1862, at the old homestead where he was born. He was married. Joseph Wheaton, his grandfather, (who was of Welsh descent,) came with his wife Lydia Kent, in 1744, from Seekonk, R. I. and settled in that part of New Milford which is now Washington.
Nathaniel S. Wheaton received his preliminary education at the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire, Conn., and was graduated at Yale College in 1814. He engaged in teaching in Maryland and while there studied theology. He was ordained deacon by the Right Reverend James Kemp, Bishop of Maryland, June 6, 1817, in All Saints' Church, Fredericktown, Md., at which time he was settled over the parish of Queen Caroline, Anne Arundel County. On May 7, 1818, the new church of St. Bartholomew, Montgomery County, was consecrated, after which Mr. Wheaton had charge of both of these parishes. According to the Maryland Journal of Convention for 1819, Mr. Wheaton was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Kemp immediately after the Convention adjourned on May 24, 1818. The Connecticut Journal of Convention 1865 erroneously gives the date as "May 18, 1848." He returned to his native State in 1819 and on January 5, 1820 was elected Assistant Rector of Christ Church, Hartford, and was elected Rector April 23, 1821, serving until 1831. He was present at the Diocesan Con- vention in 1820 and every year thereafter except 1824, until 1827. In 1821 he was one of the directors of the Christian Knowledge Society and is so reported each year until 1831. He was also appointed in 1821 to cooperate with the committee on printing the Constitution as adopted by the Convention, and in 1823 on the committee to print the Journal. He was also elected in 1823 as one of the Standing Committee and held that office until 1835 or 6, and was its secretary after 1826.
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In 1823, the trustees of Washington College requested Mr. Wheaton to go as their agent to Great Britain to solicit books and philosophical instruments, and on Aug. 26, 1823, the parish of Christ Church gave him permission to do so. He sailed in September, 1823, and returned in 1824. His Notes on Travel were printed in the "Episcopal Watchman" 1827-9, and pub- lished in book form in 1830. When abroad he had the oppor- tunity of making a study of churches with a view of building a new edifice for Christ Church. He was the architect for the present church edifice, which was completed in 1829. Dr. Rus- sell's history of Christ Church, page 76, says: "Mr. Wheaton gave attention to every detail and we are indebted to him, not only to his fine taste but to the skill of his hands, for he fashioned some of the models for the stucco ornaments, and some of the stone faces on the east end of the church were cut by him." In 1828 he subscribed $1900.00 towards the build- ing of this church. On Dec. 16, 1829, he presented the parish with a transparent painting of the Ascension, after Raphael, by W. Bacon of London, to be placed in the Chancel window. There it remained for many years the admiration of the parish- ioners, and the astonishment of many. Unfortunately it was damaged some years ago by a falling ladder. In 1854, it was replaced by a window of stained glass. In appreciation of what Mr. Wheaton had done in connection with the new church edifice, a parish meeting on March 8, 1830, passed the following resolution :-
"Resolved, That we do congratulate each other upon the important and valuable acquisition of our New Church, and acknowledge the liberality as well as the otherwise more import- ant agency of the Rev. Nathaniel S. Wheaton in procuring it, and the Parish do unite in prayer to Almighty God, that he may long tread the courts thereof, and successfully labor at the altar therein, until having made up many jewels and prepared many ornaments, he be called with them to possess the build- ing of God not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."
In 1821, the Rev. Mr. Wheaton was one of the editors of the "Churchman's Magazine." In 1826 he was elected by the Diocesan Convention as deputy to the General Convention. Also one of the committee for the American Society for Promo- tion of Christian Knowledge. In 1872 he was elected as one
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of the committee on the admission of the parish of St. Thomas, Canterbury ; in 1828, as one of the committee on the Episcopal Academy and in 1835 was on the Board of Trustees for that academy. He preached the "Election Sermon" to the State of Connecticut in 1828, being the third and last Episcopal minister that ever had that honor.
He was present at the Diocesan Conventions from 1827 to 1836 inclusive. In 1829 he resigned the office of secretary of the Church Scholarship Society and was again elected by the Diocesan Convention as deputy to the General Convention. He was so elected for the third time in 1834.
He was elected to the presidency of Washington College, (now Trinity,) Oct. 4, 1831, and in November of that year as first vice president of the Hartford Episcopal Missionary Society. At the Diocesan Convention in 1833 he delivered the sermon, and in the same year the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by Washington College.
In 1834, he was elected by the Diocesan Convention as one of the Trustees of the General Theological Seminary. In 1836, while president of the college, he organized St. Mark's Parish at New Britain and was its Rector for nearly a year as previ- ously noted. The Bishop's address to the Convention 1837 says that he had accepted a call to the rectorship of Christ Church, New Orleans, where he remained until 1844. He was a giant physically, mentally, and morally, and it was here that his remarkable powers were a great blessing to the people. During the ravages of the yellow fever he was the only one of the three Protestant clergymen that was free to perform ministerial duties. One minister was dead and the other was disabled. Dr. Wheaton was unremitting in caring for and comforting the sick and burying the dead. He rushed on horseback 'from one cemetery to another in order to meet the mortal remains of such as might require his office. At one time he led a funeral procession in which were the bodies of five young men. His life was spared, but even with his vigor, the strain and care of this siege impaired his health, which he never fully recovered.
In 1844 and 1845, he was travelling in Europe and in 1848 he returned to this State. The Bishop's address to the Con- vention of 1850 mentions his re-admission into the Diocese
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from Louisiana. In the Parochial Reports for 1849, it appears that he had temporary charge of the Church at Meriden, from June 25, 1848, to April 21, 1849. In the Journal of Convention for 1850 he is reported as secretary of the Church Scholarship Society, and the Bishop's address says that he was officiating at Hartford.
From 1845 to 1862, he officiated gratuitously as occasion required in St. Andrew's Church, Marbledale, (in Washington,) and also in the church at Washington when the Rector was absent. His ill health was a burden to him after 1858 but his interest in Trinity College was never abated. He spent con- siderable time that year in soliciting money for the college, notwithstanding the magnificent endowments that he had before secured. He bequeathed the sum of ten thousand dollars to the college, to be applied to the erection of a chapel, and also a subsidiary legacy for the general fund amounting to as much more.
Bishop Brownell is reported to have said that "he never listened to so many sermons of any preacher so uniformly interesting and excellent in several respects."
The Bishop's address in the Journal of Convention, 1862, contains the following :-
"To Dr. Wheaton, this Diocese owes a debt of gratitude which cannot be forgotten. The vigorous labors of his early ministerial life in one of our principal parishes ; the gratuitous missionary labors of his later years; his aid, not in advice merely but in means also, in the work of church building; his constant and magnanimous interest in the welfare of the col- lege, which did not waste itself in formal phrase or customary profession, but was all along living and real, attested-if it needed attestation-at the last, by his noble bequest to its endowments; these, brethren, are substantial claims on our grateful remembrance. His later days were days of suffering from disease, but all was bright and clear at last. For myself, I desire always to remember him as I first knew him, when he occupied the presidency of the college, as the clear and able expounder of the word of God, the patient and accurate instruc- tor, the well balanced Christian man, carrying under a reserved and sometimes cold exterior, an unselfish, warm and generous heart."
REV. THOMAS JEFFERSON DAVIS.
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REV. THOMAS J. DAVIS.
Thomas Jefferson, a son of Thomas and Joannah (Whitter,) Davis, was born near Hagerstown, Md., Dec. 3, 1802; died at Philadelphia, Pa., July 2, 1886; married (1) Oct. 25, 1832, Harriet, daughter of William and Sally (Wardwell,) Wads- worth, of Hartford, born 1813, died at Philadelphia, Jan. 15, 1845. He married (2) March 7, 1846, at St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia, Magdalen, daughter of Joseph Swift, Esqr. She died and he married (3) April 3, 1866, at Philadelphia, Eliza H. Campbell, of Philadelphia, born in New York, Jan. 2, 1815, died at Philadelphia, Nov. 22, 1893.
Thomas Davis, the father of Thomas Jefferson, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He removed from Maryland, and settled in Ohio, where his son received his preliminary educa- tion at Worthington. Mr. Thomas J. Davis entered Wash- ington College from Reading, O., as a student of the "Partial Course" in 1829, and left the college Nov. 1, 1830. His name appears in the list of communicants of Christ Church, Hart- ford, 1829. The Standing Committee on Aug. 4, 1831, recom- mended him as a candidate for holy orders and he was ordained deacon at Christ Church, Hartford, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Brownell, Sept. 4, 1831. He settled at Salem Bridge, (Nauga- tuck,) some time after the consecration of the church there, June 8, and before June 30, 1832. On Sept. 4, 1832, at St. Michael's Church, he was ordained to the priesthood by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Brownell. Morning Prayer was read by the Rev. Frederick Holcomb and an appropriate sermon was delivered by the Rev. William Bartow. The Rev. Ashbel Bald- win assisted in the service. Mr. Davis also had charge of the Church at Bethany during his rectorship of St. Michael's.
His name appears in the list of clergy in the Journal of Con- vention, 1832, and he was present at every Convention until 1837. In 1834 he was the Rector of St. Luke's Church, South Glastonbury, where he served until Easter, 1837. He was Rector of St. Mark's Church, New Britain, 1837, 1838, as detailed in the history of those years. In the Journal of Con- vention of 1839 he is reported as having been transferred to the Diocese of Ohio. We learn from the record of St. Paul's
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Church, Akron, O., that "In August, 1838, the vestry elected as Rector, Rev. Thomas J. Davis, a scholarly Christian, which caused the services to take on a 'Churchly' instead of a 'cot- tage' form, as had been the case, and they were held in a not unsuitable room on the second floor of a store building on the southeast corner of Market and Howard Streets; the first floor being occupied by a 'general store', the third used for the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas." Mr. Davis was present in the Diocesan Conventions of Ohio in 1839 and 1840, and was then Rector of St. Paul's. In the report of the parish for 1841, Mr. Davis says that he "continued at St. Paul's, Akron, till the first of September, at which time the sickness of my father in Mount Vernon made it necessary for me to leave there to take care of him. On the 5th. Oct. I notified the parish and have resigned my charge, since which I have continued to reside in Mount Vernon, officiating in various places." His father was a communicant of the Church at Mount Vernon, Ohio, and died there Sept. 24, 1841.
The Journal of Convention for 1842 of both Dioceses announce the transfer of the Rev. Thomas J. Davis from the Diocese of Ohio to the Diocese of Pennsylvania. In the latter Journal, in reporting the parish of St. Mark's Church, Moya- mensing, Philadelphia County, he says: "I accepted the charge of this parish the 4th of Jan. last and I am happy to say that it has been constantly increasing in numbers and pros- perity." He resigned his care of this parish in May, 1843 and engaged in teaching school through the week, assisting in Divine Services on Sundays in several of the city churches. He was so engaged also in 1844, preaching occasionally and assist- ing, mainly at St. Peter's Church under Bishop Odenheimer.
In 1845 he is reported as one of the "Missionaries of the Society for the advancement of Christianity" in the district of Philadelphia, and he was the City Missionary, 1847 to 1849 inclusive.
He reports to the Convention of 1850 that "Since the last Convention I have labored assiduously to establish the Church in the spiritually destitute region of the Rising Sun village."
"At a meeting of the vestry on the 24th of Aug. 1849, I was chosen Rector at a salary of five hundred dollars.
"This arrangement was made with the unanimous resolution that every exertion should be made to cause a church edifice
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to be erected," and he immediately began to solicit for that object and the building was erected under Mr. Davis' super- vision. The Church which Mr. Davis thus established was named the Church of the Resurrection and Mr. Davis was the Rector continuously until April 1, 1872, when he retired from active service and was elected Rector Emeritus. At this latter date the parish of St. George was united with the Church of the Resurrection.
In 1876 he had published at Philadelphia by Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, a 16mo volume of 180 pages, entitled-"A Sketch of the Life, Character and Public Services of Thomas Jefferson."
He was a member of Mary Commandery No. 36, Knights Templar of Pennsylvania, in 1873, and in 1875 was made an honorary or life member. He was wont to officiate on Sun- days at the Masonic Home in Philadelphia, and one of his brother Masons says: "I remember him as a perfect gentle- man in every way."
The Rector Emeritus of the Church of the Resurrection, Rising Sun, died after a prolonged illness July 2, 1886, aged 84 years. His funeral was attended from the church on July 6. The Rev. Joseph R. Moore read the office for the burial of the dead, after which the body was interred at the Church of St. James the Less, Falls of Schuylkill. The services at the grave were according to the Masonic ritual. The death of the aged priest was noted in the Philadelphia "Ledger," which said that throughout his ministry at the Church of the Resurrec- tion he taught a private school for boys, as the parish was not able to entirely support him. It also stated that "His first parish was at New Britain, Conn." "The Standard of the Cross," Cleveland, Ohio, also made the latter statement. This is an error, as his first cure included the two parishes of Salem Bridge and Bethany, Conn. Probably the error arose from the statement which Mr. Davis had made, that his first services were at New Britain, Conn., but this was only as a lay reader when he was a student at Trinity College, 1829-1830. Thus endeth the record of a faithful minister of Christ, who for fifty-five years labored with the poor and needy. He was forty-four years a minister in Philadelphia and connected with but a single Church for twenty-seven years.
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REV. ZEBEDIAH HYDE MANSFIELD.
Zebediah Hyde, a son of William and Susan (Hyde,) Mans- field, was born Dec. 19, 1811, at Norwich Town, upon the home lot of his ancestor, the first William Hyde of Norwich; died unmarried, April 16, 1858, at Norwich, Conn., in the same room in which he was born. His nearest of kin informs us that there is no picture of him in existence.
He was graduated from Trinity College in 1836, and was then a candidate for holy orders. He was ordained deacon, June 12, 1838, and priest, March 18, 1840, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Brownell. He is in the list of clergy in the Journal of Convention 1838, as officiating at St. Mark's. Church, New Britain, Conn., where he remained for a few months. His next charge was the Church at Warehouse Point, Conn., where he officiated until 1841. He probably resigned his charge there on account of ill health as the Bishop's address for 1842 men- tions his absence from the Diocese by reason of ill health. He engaged in teaching a classical school at Wilmington, Del., and was received into the Diocese of Delaware, Aug. 29, 1844, from the Diocese of Connecticut. He was then prevented by imperfect health from speaking in public except in small rooms. He visited his native state in 1848 and preached once at Christ Church, Norwich, also at St. John's Church, Warehouse Point, with much pleasure. He was still teaching at Wilmington, Del., in 1852, and was preaching on Sundays in various places. He resided at Georgetown, D. C. 1852, 1854, and in the latter year was transferred from the Diocese of Delaware to the Diocese of Connecticut, where he had charge of a family school and the direction of the department of Ancient Languages in a large seminary in the vicinity of Norwich. He was also then assist- ing at Grace Church, Yantic. He was soon after made Rector of that Church and remained so until his death.
His love for the Church and especially the Church in his native place is shown by his will, in which he left a legacy to St. Andrew's Church of Wilmington, Del., while the amount of his deposit in the Norwich Savings Bank, amounting to about $1850.00, was given to the "Board of Directors of the
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REV. JOHN MARSHALL GUION, S.T.D.
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Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge in the State of Connecticut," towards the support of the minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the village of Yantic. Also a residuary legacy to the same Society amounting to nearly $6,000.00 for the purpose of providing a rectory at Yantic.
The Assistant Bishop's address to the Convention of 1858 refers to the death of Mr. Mansfield as follows: "Amid many discouragements, arising from continued bodily illness, he per- severed with unobtrusive fidelity in the duties of his holy calling ; and he has left behind him a remembrance, which those whom he served will long cherish and preserve."
REV. JOHN MARSHALL GUION, S.T.D.
John Marshall, a son of Elijah and Elizabeth (Marshall,) Guion, was born Feb. 22, 1801, at Rye, N. Y .; married in St. Mark's Church, New York City by the Rev. Dr. Creighton, May 15, 1832, Elizabeth Ives, daughter of John Robert Wheaton of New York City. She was born Jan. 5, 1801, at Norwich, England. He was of the sixth generation in descent from Louis Guion, a French Huguenot who came to America in 1687 and settled at New Rochelle, N. Y. In 1822 John M. Guion entered Columbia College, from which he was graduated in 1826. His theological studies were pursued at the General Theological Seminary, New York and completed in 1829. On the Third Sunday after Trinity, July 5, 1829, he was made deacon in St. Paul's Chapel, New York, by the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart. He immediately went to Palmyra, N. Y., as missionary and in 1830 he was in charge of St. Mark's Church, New York City, as minister under Dr. Creighton. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1830, and in 1832 he removed to Connecticut and had charge of Grace Church, Saybrook in that year, although he was not canonically received into the Diocese until after the sitting of the Convention of 1833. He was present at many of the Diocesan Conventions from 1832 to 1848 inclusive. While at Saybrook, he published a pamphlet entitled "An apology for the Church's reply to a Retrospect on the Minister and Church at Saybrook," Middletown, Conn.,
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1834. A copy of this work is in the library of the General Theological Seminary, New York, as is also a copy of his sermon on "Ministerial Holiness" New York, 1835. These are his only publications of which we have any knowledge. He resigned the rectorship at Saybrook and entered on that of St. Andrew's Church, Meriden, April 24, 1836. He resigned the rectorship of St. Andrew's Church in October, 1838, and on December 2, he began to officiate in St. Mark's Church, New Britain. He was elected Rector before the sitting of the Con- vention in 1839. The account of his rectorship at St. Mark's is hereinbefore given. During the last year of his rectorship in New Britain, 1845, he was teaching a private school at Hart- ford. His report as published in the Journal of Convention for 1846 shows that he had during the ecclesiastical year officiated on alternate Sundays at St. Matthew's Church, East Plymouth. In 1847 he was again officiating at his old parish, Grace Church in Saybrook, and he had also during the year officiated seven Sundays in New Britain. He was succeeded at Saybrook by the Rev. C. R. Fisher in the spring of 1849, and on May 6, 1850, he began teaching in the State Normal School at New Britain, where he remained for about two years or more, when he conducted a private school at New Britain, for a time. In 1853 he was in charge of Christ Church, Bethany, Conn., where he had officiated since April 24, of that year. In the summer of 1852, he officiated on alternate Sundays at St. Matthew's, East Plymouth, and for about two months thereafter officiated in the parish of St. James', Birmingham, pending the entrance of the Rector-elect.
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