Jill Biden calls swearing in of the 1st woman national archivist ‘momentous’
By WILL WEISSERT
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — First Lady Jill Biden saluted Colleen Shogan, the first woman to be sworn in as national archivist, saying that democracy’s power is “made real with access to history, unfiltered and uncensored.” Shogan, a former government and politics professor at George Mason University, was formally sworn in on Monday to head the National Archives and Records Administration, It maintains billions of documents — including the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, Harriet Tubman’s Civil War pension claims and Thomas Edison’s patent for the lightbulb.
