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- ↑ "Search Results". dela.state.va.us. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
- ↑ "Welcome to the Virginia House of Delegates". dela.state.va.us. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
- ↑ The General Assembly of Virginia 1962-1981 (Richmond: Commonwealth of Virginia 1983) p. 221-222
- ↑ "Virginia Elections Database » Search Elections". Virginia Elections Database. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
- ↑ legislative bio
- ↑ Sandra Gioia Treadway, "Dorothy McDiarmid and Mary Marshall" in Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra Gioia Treadway (eds.), Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times--Volume 2 (Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2016) p. 343
- ↑ lawyers.com entry 1738393
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Bernhart-Company-Shenandoah-Fraktur.../0615550843 [ dead link ]