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Friday, January 23, 2009 - Page updated at 08:49 a.m.

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UPDATE - 08:49 AM

Aide: Successor chosen for Clinton's Senate seat

Gov. David Paterson has picked Democratic U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to fill New York's vacant U.S. Senate seat, an aide to the governor said early Friday, a day after Caroline Kennedy abruptly withdrew from consideration.

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