Senator Kaufman inherited Joe Biden’s desk in the Senate Chamber in which he inscribed his own name alongside many other well-known senators: John F. Kennedy (D-MA), J. Allen Frear, Jr. (D-DE), and Edmund Muskie (D-ME). The practice of inscribing names inside drawers of their desks began around 1900. The first occupant of Desk XCI was Henry L. Meyers (D-MT) who was elected in 1911; Kaufman's successor at Desk XCI is Chris Coons (D-DE), who was elected to the Senate in 2010.
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