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Dividends | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
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Dividends | Note 12 — Dividends The Company has paid regular quarterly cash dividends since the second quarter of 2003. During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company paid regular quarterly cash dividends totaling approximately $60.7 million as follows:
| Quarter Ended
| December 31, 2020 |  | September 30, 2020 |  | June 30, 2020 |  | March 31, 2020
| (amounts in thousands, except per share data)
Cash dividend per common share | $ | 0.20500 |  |  | $ | 0.20375 |  |  | $ | 0.20250 |  |  | $ | 0.20125 |
Total cash dividends paid | $ | 15,322 |  |  | $ | 15,222 |  |  | $ | 15,128 |  |  | $ | 15,033 |
Record date | November 20, 2020 |  | August 21, 2020 |  | May 22, 2020 |  | February 28, 2020
Payment date | December 24, 2020 |  | September 25, 2020 |  | June 26, 2020 |  | March 27, 2020
Cash dividends declared on the Company's outstanding weighted average number of basic common shares for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018 were as follows:
| Year Ended December 31,
| 2020 |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Cash dividends declared per common share | $ | 0.81750 |  |  | $ | 0.79750 |  |  | $ | 0.77750 |

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