Edmund Pendleton was a Virginia planter,politician,lawyer,judge,and a Founding Father of the United States. He served in the Virginia legislature before and during the American Revolutionary War,rising to the position of speaker. Pendleton attended the First Continental Congress as one of Virginia's delegates alongside George Washington and Patrick Henry,signed the Continental Association,and led the conventions both wherein Virginia declared independence (1776) and adopted the United States Constitution (1788).
Samuel Jordan Cabell was an American Revolutionary War officer,planter and Virginia politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates and at the Virginia Ratification Convention of 1788 as an Anti-Federalist and in the United States House of Representatives aligned with the Democratic-Republican.
Cuthbert Bullitt was an American colonial planter and lawyer from Prince William County,Virginia. During the American Revolution,he was a local and colonial political leader,and voted against ratification of the U.S. Constitution at the Virginia Ratification Convention.
Alexander White was a distinguished early American lawyer and politician in the present-day U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia. He served in the House of Burgesses,the Virginia House of Delegates (representing Frederick County and later Berkeley County. During the American Revolutionary War,White facilitated the release of Quaker and Hessian civilian prisoners held by patriots. White also participated in the Virginia Ratifying Convention and became the northwestern Virginia district's inaugural member in the United States House of Representatives. United States President George Washington appointed White one of the commissioners responsible for the planning and construction of Washington,D.C..
Thomas Lewis was an Irish-American surveyor,lawyer,politician and pioneer of early western Virginia. He was among the signers of the Fairfax Resolves,represented Augusta County at four of the five Virginia Revolutionary Conventions and the first session of the Virginia House of Delegates during the American War for Independence,and after the conflict,represented newly established Rockingham County at the Virginia Ratification Convention,as well as contributed to the settlement of an area that long after his death become part of West Virginia.
John Francis Mercer was an American lawyer,planter,and politician from Virginia and Maryland,who served as Maryland's governor,as well as terms in the Continental Congress,U.S. House of Representatives,Virginia House of Delegates,and Maryland State Assembly
Josiah Parker was an American politician,Revolutionary War officer and Virginia planter who served in the United States House of Representatives from Virginia in the First through Sixth United States Congresses as well as represented Isle of Wight County in three of the five Virginia revolutionary convention and in the Virginia House of Delegates for several terms before his federal service.
The Virginia Ratifying Convention was a convention of 168 delegates from Virginia who met in 1788 to ratify or reject the United States Constitution,which had been drafted at the Philadelphia Convention the previous year.
Leven Powell was a Virginia planter,merchant,Continental Army officer and Federalist politician who served several terms in the Virginia House of Delegates as well as in the Virginia Ratification Convention representing Loudoun County,and one term as a United States Representative for Virginia's 17th congressional district.
William Fitzhugh Gordon was a nineteenth-century,lawyer,military officer,politician and planter from the piedmont region of Virginia.
John Roane was an eighteenth and nineteenth century politician from Virginia. He was the father of congressman John J. Roane.
Burwell Bassett,Jr. was an American slave owner,planter and politician from New Kent County and for two decades from Williamsburg in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Like his father,he served in both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly,and in addition won election several times to the United States House of Representatives,where he served for more than a decade in three different districts,because of census-required reorganizations.
John Tyler Sr. was an American planter,15th Governor of Virginia,United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Virginia and the father of President John Tyler.
Charles Simms (1755–1819) was a Virginia lawyer,Revolutionary War officer and politician. A friend of George Washington,Simms thrice represented Fairfax County,Virginia in the Virginia House of Delegates as well as at the Virginia Ratification Convention of 1788,and also served as mayor of Alexandria during the War of 1812.
David Stuart was a Virginia physician,politician,and correspondent of George Washington. When Washington became President of the United States,he made Stuart one of three commissioners appointed to design a new United States capital city.
John Pride III was an American politician from Virginia. Pride served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly,and as Clerk of Court for Amelia County. He was a delegate to the Virginia Ratifying Convention of 1788,and a presidential elector in 1789 and 1792.
[George] French Strother was an eighteenth-century planter,politician,lawyer and judge in Virginia,nicknamed "the Fearless" for his fiery rhetoric during debates in the American Revolutionary War.
Gilbert Livingston was a lawyer who,in 1788,served as a delegate to the Poughkeepsie Convention where,despite having arrived at the convention as an Anti-Federalist,he ultimately voted to ratify the United States Constitution. Both before and after that ratification convention,he served in the New York Assembly,representing Dutchess County. Livingston had also been a member of the New York Provincial Congress.
James Innes was an American attorney,officer in the American Revolutionary War and politician. The second Attorney General of Virginia after independence,he served a decade before resigning for health reasons. He also served in the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Ratification Convention at various times representing Williamsburg or nearby James City County.
Burwell Bassett,Sr. was an American planter,patriot and politician from New Kent County in the Commonwealth of Virginia,who served in both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly,and in the Virginia Ratification Convention in 1788.
