Harry Flood Byrd Sr. was an American newspaper publisher,politician,and leader of the Democratic Party in Virginia for four decades as head of a political faction that became known as the Byrd Organization. Byrd served as Virginia's governor from 1926 until 1930,then represented it as a U.S. Senator from 1933 until 1965. He came to lead the conservative coalition in the Senate,and opposed President Franklin D. Roosevelt,largely blocking most liberal legislation after 1937. His son Harry Jr. succeeded him as U.S. Senator,but ran as an Independent following the decline of the Byrd Organization.
John Garland Pollard was a Virginia lawyer and American Democratic politician,who served as the 21st Attorney General of Virginia (1914-1918) and as the 51st Governor of Virginia,as well as on the Federal Trade Commission (1919-1921) and as chairman of the Board of Veterans Appeals (1934-1937).
Andrew Jackson Montague was a Virginia lawyer and American politician. He served as the 44th Governor of Virginia,from 1902 to 1906,and a Congressman from 1912 until his death in 1937. A Democrat,Montague is best remembered as the first Virginia governor since the American Civil War not to have served in the Confederate military. Initially a Progressive,Governor Montague expanded the state capitol building,supported public education and the Good Roads Movement and opposed the Martin Organization. However,later as U.S. Congressman,he became a Conservative Democrat and supporter of the Byrd Organization.
Littleton Waller Tazewell was a Virginia lawyer,plantation owner and politician who served as U.S. Representative,U.S. Senator and the 26th Governor of Virginia,as well as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
James Lindsay Almond Jr. was an American lawyer,state and federal judge and Democratic party politician. His political offices included as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 6th congressional district (1946-1948),26th Attorney General of Virginia (1948-1957) and the 58th Governor of Virginia (1958-1962). As a member of the Byrd Organization,Almond initially supported Massive resistance to the integration of public schools following the United States Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education- however,when Virginia and federal courts ruled segregation unconstitutional,Almond worked with the legislature to end massive resistance. Almond then became an associate judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (1962-1973),and after retiring,continued to serve as Senior Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (1973-1982) and then Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from 1982,until his death in 1986.
John Stewart Battle was an American lawyer and politician who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly and as the 56th Governor of Virginia.
Abner Linwood Holton Jr. was an American politician and attorney. He served as the 61st governor of Virginia,from 1970 to 1974,and was the first elected Republican governor of Virginia of the 20th century. He was known for supporting civil rights,integration,and public investment.
George Campbell Peery was an American Democratic politician,and was the 52nd governor of Virginia from 1934 to 1938. He became the second governor to be selected,at least partially,by the soon to be very powerful Byrd Organization,led by Senator Harry F. Byrd,Sr.
William Munford Tuck was an American lawyer and lieutenant in the Byrd Organization,who served as the 55th Governor of Virginia from 1946 to 1950 as a Democrat,and as a U.S. Congressman from 1953 until 1969.
Henry Evans Howell,Jr.,nicknamed "Howlin' Henry" Howell,was an American lawyer and politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia. A progressive populist and a member of the Democratic Party,he served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly,was elected the 31st Lieutenant Governor of Virginia as an Independent Democrat,and made several runs for governor.
James Hubert Price was an American politician who was elected 53rd Governor of Virginia in 1937,during the Great Depression and became known as the Commonwealth's "New Deal Governor." Over the opposition of the Byrd Organization,Price,a Virginia attorney and businessman,passed many social programs and implemented other federal programs to benefit Virginians. Price had previously represented Richmond as one of its delegates in the Virginia House of Delegates for over a decade (1916–1930),as well as served as Lieutenant Governor for two terms beginning in 1930.
Menalcus ("Mack") Lankford was a Virginia lawyer,naval aviator and Republican politician who served two terms as U.S. Representative from Virginia's 2nd congressional district,whose largest city is Norfolk.
Norman Rond Hamilton was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.
Dr. Thomas Custis Parramore (1932-2004) was a Professor Emeritus of History at Meredith College,retiring in 1992 as well as a prominent author on the subject of North Carolina history and the recipient of numerous historical association awards. He was elected as member of the North Carolinana Society recognizing his "adjudged performance" in support of North Carolina's historical,literature,and culture.
Luther Bynum Way was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Allie Edward Stakes Stephens,usually known as "A. E. S." or "Gi" Stephens,was a Virginia lawyer and Democratic Party politician who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly and as the 27th lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1952 to 1962. His state political career ended with a loss in the Democratic primary for Governor in 1961,after he and Governor J. Lindsay Almond broke with the Byrd Organization,which wanted to continue its policy of massive resistance to desegregation of Virginia's schools after both the Virginia Supreme Court and a 3-judge federal panel ruled most elements unconstitutional in 1959.
Benjamin Muse was an American lawyer,soldier,diplomat,newspaper publisher,author and politician. He briefly served as a member of the Virginia Senate. In 1941 Muse,running as the Republican candidate for Governor of Virginia,lost overwhelmingly to Democrat Colgate Darden,a member of the state's Byrd Organization. Later,Muse lived in Manassas,Virginia,from where he opposed and chronicled the Massive Resistance crisis fostered by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd and Richmond newspaperman James J. Kilpatrick as they fomented opposition to the United States Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education which overturned racial segregation in public schools.
Garland Gray was a long-time Democratic member of the Virginia Senate representing Southside Virginia counties,including his native Sussex. A lumber and banking executive,Gray became head of the Democratic Caucus in the Virginia Senate,and vehemently opposed school desegregation after the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and 1955. Although Senator Harry F. Byrd himself supported Massive Resistance,and preferred Gray over other candidates,the Byrd Organization refused to wholeheartedly support Gray's bid to become the party's gubernatorial candidate in 1957,so J. Lindsay Almond won that party's primary and later the Governorship.
The Commission on Education,known as the Perrow Commission after its chairman,Virginia state senator Mosby Perrow Jr.,was a 40-member commission established by Governor of Virginia J. Lindsay Almond on February 5,1959 after the Virginia Supreme Court in Harrison v. Day and a three-judge federal court in James v. Almond had both struck down significant portions of the Stanley Plan,which had implemented Massive Resistance to the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education issued on May 17,1954 and May 31,1955. Four legislators were appointed from each of the ten U.S. Congressional districts in Virginia. Compared to the Gray Commission that Governor Thomas B. Stanley had appointed five years previously,Perrow Commission included more representatives from cities,northern and Western Virginia,although many members served on both commissions.
Robert Whitehead was an American politician and lawyer from the U.S. state of Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party,and for many years leader of the party's opposition to the Byrd Organization,he served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1942 until his death after the 1960 legislative session,representing his native Nelson County,Virginia as well as adjacent Amherst County.
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