Danville is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The city is located in the Southside Virginia region and on the fall line of the Dan River. It was a center of tobacco production and was an area of Confederate activity during the American Civil War,due to its strategic location on the Richmond and Danville Railroad. In April 1865 it briefly served as the final capital of the Confederate States before its surrender later that year.
Henry Alexander Wise was an American attorney,diplomat,politician and slave owner from Virginia. As the 33rd Governor of Virginia,Wise served as a significant figure on the path to the American Civil War,becoming heavily involved in the 1859 trial of abolitionist John Brown. After leaving office in 1860,Wise also led the move toward Virginia's secession from the Union in reaction to the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Battle of Fort Sumter.
Elizabeth Holtzman is an American attorney and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from New York's 16th congressional district as a member of the Democratic Party from 1973 to 1981. She then served as district attorney of Kings County from 1982 to 1989,and as the 40th Comptroller of New York City from 1990 to 1993.
William Lloyd Scott was an American Republican politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia. He served in both the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate.
Andrew H. Hunter was a Virginia lawyer,slaveholder,and politician who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly,including the Confederate House of Delegates. He was the Commonwealth's attorney for Jefferson County,Virginia,who prosecuted John Brown for the raid on Harpers Ferry.
A poll tax is a tax of a fixed sum on every liable individual,without reference to income or resources. Although often associated with states of the former Confederate States of America,poll taxes were also in place in some northern and western states,including California,Connecticut,Maine,Massachusetts,Minnesota,New Hampshire,Ohio,Pennsylvania,Vermont and Wisconsin. Poll taxes had been a major source of government funding among the colonies which formed the United States. Poll taxes made up from one-third to one-half of the tax revenue of colonial Massachusetts. Various privileges of citizenship,including voter registration or issuance of driving licenses and resident hunting and fishing licenses,were conditioned on payment of poll taxes to encourage the collection of this tax revenue. Property taxes assumed a larger share of tax revenues as land values rose when population increases encouraged settlement of the American West. Some western states found no need for poll tax requirements;but poll taxes and payment incentives remained in eastern states. Poll taxes became a tool of disenfranchisement in the South during Jim Crow,following the end of Reconstruction. This persisted until court action,following the ratification of the 24th Amendment in 1964,ended the practice.
The 1970 United States Senate election in New York was held on November 3,1970,to elect New York's Class I Senator in its delegation. Representative Charles Goodell had been appointed by Governor Nelson Rockefeller to serve the remainder of Robert F. Kennedy's senatorial term,following Kennedy's assassination.
William Francis Stone was Virginia lawyer and member of the Virginia General Assembly representing Martinsville as well as Patrick and Henry Counties between 1954 and 1957,first as a delegate and then elected to a partial senate term in a special 1957 election upon the death of Frank P. Burton. A member of the Byrd Organization,Stone was a member of the Boatwright Committee which investigated the NAACP as part of the Massive Resistance to racial integration vowed by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd after the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education.
Whittington Whiteside "Whitt" Clement is a Virginia lawyer and Democratic politician who served seven terms in the Virginia House of Delegates (1988-2002) and also became the Virginia Secretary of Transportation under Governor Mark Warner.
Thomas Sylvester Riley was an American lawyer,politician,and businessperson who was based in West Virginia. Riley was the state's eleventh attorney general from March 4,1893,until March 3,1897.
Don Scott is an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat,he is a member of the Virginia House of Delegates,representing the 80th district. He was minority leader of the Virginia House of Delegates from 2022 to 2024. On January 10,2024,he became Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. He is the first black speaker in Virginia's history.
Clinton Arlando Fowler was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates during the General Assembly's 1932 and special 1933 sessions. A resident of Ringgold,he represented the district composed of Pittsylvania and the City of Danville.
Edward Lebbaeus Breeden Jr. was an American lawyer and politician who served for many decades as a member of the Virginia General Assembly,first in the House of Delegates and later in the Senate. In 1970,he became the first formal majority floor leader of the Senate,after a move to reduce the power of the President pro tempore.
Harry Jheopart Capehart Sr. was an American lawyer,politician,and businessperson in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Capehart served as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates,representing McDowell County for three consecutive terms,from 1919 to 1925. He also served as an assessor,city councilperson,and city attorney for Keystone,West Virginia.
The women's poll tax repeal movement was a movement in the United States,predominantly led by women,that attempted to secure the abolition of poll taxes as a prerequisite for voting in the Southern states. The movement began shortly after the ratification in 1920 of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution,which granted suffrage to women. Before obtaining the right to vote,women were not obliged to pay the tax,but shortly after the Nineteenth Amendment became law,Southern states began examining how poll tax statutes could be applied to women. For example,North and South Carolina exempted women from payment of the tax,while Georgia did not require women to pay it unless they registered to vote. In other Southern states,the tax was due cumulatively for each year someone had been eligible to vote.
Walter Herman Emroch is an American attorney and politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates. A Richmond native,he is a partner at that city's personal injury law firm Emroch &Kilduff,which he founded in 1970.
Eppa Hunton III,known as Eppa Hunton Jr.,was an American lawyer,railroad executive,and politician. The son of General Eppa Hunton,he experienced a turbulent childhood with the American Civil War and Reconstruction as its backdrop. After graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law,he practiced law with his father in Warrenton,Virginia,for a number of years before moving south to Richmond in 1901 to help found the law firm Munford,Hunton,Williams &Anderson.
Eugene Withers was a lawyer and politician who served in both the Virginia House of Delegates and Virginia Senate,representing Pittsylvania County and Danville.
Leon Parker Miller was an American lawyer,politician,and judge,in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Miller served as U.S. Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands from 1954 to 1962. He was appointed the first African-American judge in West Virginia in April 1968,and became the state's first elected African-American judge in November 1968.
Eppa Hunton IV was an American lawyer. A native of Richmond,Virginia,he graduated from the University of Virginia and its law school before returning to his hometown,where,excepting his overseas military service in World War II,he resided the remainder of his life. The only son of Eppa Hunton Jr.,in 1927 he joined the firm his father co-founded—Hunton,Williams,Anderson &Gay —and practiced corporate law,eventually becoming a senior partner.
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