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9/21/19
75 new United States citizens were sworn in this week in West Branch.
U.S. District Magistrate Judge Mark Roberts presided, while the Clerk of Court administered the Oath of Allegiance to America’s newest citizens during a special naturalization ceremony Friday at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. The ceremony was one of over 316 ceremonies that welcomed and will welcome more than 34,300 new citizens at Constitution Day and Citizenship Day ceremonies across the nation between Sept. 13th and 23rd.
On Sept. 17th, the nation observed Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, as part of Constitution Week, Sept. 17th to 23rd this year. The commemoration honors both the signing of the Constitution on Sept. 17th, 1787, and an observance that began in 1940 as “I Am an American Day.” Citizenship Day began in 1952, based on a law signed by President Harry Truman, and in 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower proclaimed the first Constitution Week.