OHIO STATEHOOD DAY--House Speaker Larry Householder, R-Glenford, gavels a Joint Session of the 125th General Assembly to order, as he and Senate President Doug White, R-Manchester, preside at the Ross County Courthouse, in celebration of the Bicentennial, on Ohio Statehood Day, at the state's first capital of Chillicothe, on Saturday, March 1, 2003. The bust at the top of the photo is of Ohio's first governor Edward Tiffin. (Jack Kustron/Photoj.com)