After a contentious special election, Senator-elect Doug Jones is set to be sworn into office Wednesday in Washington.

Jones will be sworn in on a family Bible, a spokesman for his transition told AL.com on Sunday. He will be joined by family and friends for the ceremonial portion of the act for pictures with Vice President Mike Pence, who administers the oath. Senate rules bar photography during the official swearing in, where Jones will be signing a copy of the oath and reciting it.

The oath allows Jones to partake in Senate business.

Upon his swearing in, Jones will become the 49th Democratic member of the Senate (Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders caucuses with Democrats), tightening the Republican majority in the upper chamber.

Jones became the first Democrat in 25 years to win a Senate seat in Alabama when he defeated Republican Roy Moore in the Dec. 12 special election to fill Jeff Sessions's seat.

High turnout, especially among African-American voters, catapulted Jones to victory of Moore, who was dogged by allegations of sexual misconduct from women who said they were teenagers at the time of the incidents in the 1970s. Jones won the race by 21,924 votes, or a margin of 1.7 percent of the vote.

Moore did not concede to Jones and filed a lawsuit alleging voter fraud in the race, but the suit was thrown out of Montgomery County Circuit Court after a judge ruled the court did not have jurisdiction over the matter.

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill said Saturday that the deadline had passed for Moore to seek a recount using his own funds. The state threshold for an automatic recount is a .5 percent margin.