George Mason was an American planter,politician,Founding Father,and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787,one of the three delegates present who refused to sign the Constitution. His writings,including substantial portions of the Fairfax Resolves of 1774,the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776,and his Objections to this Constitution of Government (1787) opposing ratification,have exercised a significant influence on American political thought and events. The Virginia Declaration of Rights,which Mason principally authored,served as a basis for the United States Bill of Rights,of which he has been deemed a father.
Francis Lightfoot Lee was a Founding Father of the United States and a member of the House of Burgesses in the Colony of Virginia. As an active protester regarding issues such as the Stamp Act of 1765,Lee helped move the colony in the direction of independence from Britain. Lee was a delegate to the Virginia Conventions and the Continental Congress. He was a signer of the Articles of Confederation and the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Virginia. In addition to his career in politics,Lee owned a tobacco plantation as well as many slaves. He was a member of the Lee family,a prominent Virginian dynasty.
The Virginia General Assembly is the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Virginia,the oldest continuous law-making body in the Western Hemisphere,the first elected legislative assembly in the New World,and was established on July 30,1619. The General Assembly is a bicameral body consisting of a lower house,the Virginia House of Delegates,with 100 members,and an upper house,the Senate of Virginia,with 40 members. Combined,the General Assembly consists of 140 elected representatives from an equal number of constituent districts across the commonwealth. The House of Delegates is presided over by the Speaker of the House,while the Senate is presided over by the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. The House and Senate each elect a clerk and sergeant-at-arms. The Senate of Virginia's clerk is known as the "Clerk of the Senate".
The Virginia House of Delegates is one of the two parts of the Virginia General Assembly,the other being the Senate of Virginia. It has 100 members elected for terms of two years;unlike most states,these elections take place during odd-numbered years. The House is presided over by the Speaker of the House,who is elected from among the House membership by the Delegates. The Speaker is usually a member of the majority party and,as Speaker,becomes the most powerful member of the House. The House shares legislative power with the Senate of Virginia,the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly. The House of Delegates is the modern-day successor to the Virginia House of Burgesses,which first met at Jamestown in 1619. The House is divided into Democratic and Republican caucuses. In addition to the Speaker,there is a majority leader,majority whip,majority caucus chair,minority leader,minority whip,minority caucus chair,and the chairs of the several committees of the House.
Charles Fenton Mercer was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Loudoun County,Virginia who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Virginia General Assembly.
Adam Paul Ebbin is an American politician who is the senator from the 30th District of the Virginia Senate since January 2012. A member of the Democratic Party,he was the Delegate from the 49th District of the Virginia House of Delegates from 2004 to 2012.
The Democratic Party of Virginia is the Virginia affiliate of the Democratic Party based in Richmond,Virginia.
Charles Richard "Dick" Cranwell is an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates 1972–2001,and was its Democratic floor leader 1991–2001. From 2005 to 2010,he was chairman of the Democratic Party of Virginia.
Christopher Kilian Peace is an American politician of the Republican Party.
Charniele LeRhonda Herring is an American politician. She has served in the Virginia House of Delegates since 2009,representing the 46th district,made up of portions of the city of Alexandria and Fairfax County,near Washington,D.C.
George Alvin Massenburg was an American politician. A Democrat,he served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1926 to 1950 and served as its Speaker from 1947 to 1950.
John Tyler Sr. was an American lawyer,planter,politician and judge who served in the Virginia House of Delegates and became 15th Governor of Virginia and later United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Virginia. Nonetheless,he may be best known as the father of President John Tyler.
Luke E. Torian is an American politician. Since 2010 he has served in the Virginia House of Delegates,representing the 52nd district in the Prince William County suburbs of Washington,D.C. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
James Easley Edmunds II is an American politician. He has served in the Virginia House of Delegates since 2010,representing the 60th district in Southside Virginia. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Charles Rogers Fenwick was a patent attorney and Virginia Democratic politician aligned with the Byrd Organization who served part-time in the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate representing Arlington County.
Paul Eugene Krizek is an American politician. He has served in the Virginia House of Delegates since 2016,representing the 44th district of Virginia in Fairfax County. Krizek is a member of the Democratic Party.
The 2020 Green Party presidential primaries were a series of primary elections,caucuses and state conventions in which voters elected delegates to represent a candidate for the Green Party's nominee for President of the United States at the 2020 Green National Convention. The primaries,were held in numerous U.S. states on various dates from early spring into early summer of 2020,and featured elections publicly funded,concurrent with the Democratic Party and Republican Party primaries,and elections privately funded by the Green Party,held non-concurrently with the major party primaries.
Jason C. Buckel is an American politician,and the minority leader in the Maryland House of Delegates. He has represented District 1B since 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Edith Jerry Patterson is a Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates who represents district 28,which is based in Charles County. She previously served as a county commissioner from 2002 to 2010 and a member of the Board of Education for Charles County from 1983 to 1995.
John Paul Hott II is an American politician serving as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from the 54th district. Elected in November 2018,he assumed office on December 1,2018.
