Over at the state capitol building in Denver, State Senator Nancy Spence ducked out of a meeting to say she is very disappointed Romney is dropping out.

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Historians believe Georgia's burned at some point, and New York officials have said the state's copy likely was lost in a 1911 fire that destroyed a section of the state capitol building.

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Students from the historically black college marched to the courthouse and the state Capitol building Thursday to protest what they described as voting discrepancies in several Florida counties during the presidential election.

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On a recent Friday, he was at the state Capitol building in Denver, wearing a suit and tie and a name tag identifying him as a lobbyist with the Grand Valley Citizens Alliance.

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And when he took the oath of office as governor of Washington, he did so in the state capitol building not one mile from the home where his grandfather worked as a servant all those years ago.

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State Senator Jim Kastama was in a meeting with fellow Democrats on the third floor of the Washington state Capitol building in Olympia when the quake struck.

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He also has offered to have her body lie in state at the capitol building rotunda in Atlanta, the governor's spokeswoman Heather Hedrick told CNN.

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Many states resorted to the gimmick during the economic downturn, including Arizona, which decided to sell its state capitol building in 2009.

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After leaving office, his accomplishments included founding the University of Virginia and designing UVA buildings in Charlottesville, as well as Virginia's state capitol building in Richmond.

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