Carte Goodwin, with his wife, Rochelle, and son, Wesley, enters the governor's reception room in the state Capitol Friday afternoon. Gov. Joe Manchin named Goodwin, his former chief counsel, to temporarily fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant when Sen. Robert C. Byrd died last month.

Manchin hands Goodwin a pocket-size copy of the U.S. Constitution -- signed by Byrd -- as first lady Gayle Manchin and the Mountain State's now-senior U.S. senator, Jay Rockefeller, watch.