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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.
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The Senate of Virginia is the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly. The Senate is composed of 40 senators representing an equal number of single-member constituent districts. The Senate is presided over by the lieutenant governor of Virginia. Prior to the American War of Independence, the upper house of the General Assembly was represented by the Virginia Governor's Council, consisting of up to 12 executive counselors appointed by the colonial royal governor as advisers and jurists.
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John Chapman "Chap" Petersen is an American politician. A Democrat, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates 2002–06, was elected to the Virginia State Senate in November 2007, and was reelected in 2011. He represented the state's 34th district, made up of the city of Fairfax and large parts of Fairfax County. In June 2023, Petersen lost the Democratic primary for District 37 to Saddam Azlan Salim. Salim won the general election, and assumed office on January 10, 2024.
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Virginia's 92nd House of Delegates district elects one of 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates, the lower house of the state's bicameral legislature. District 92 in Hampton has been represented by Democrat Jeion Ward since 2004. In the 2017 election, Ward faced a primary challenge from Michael Harris.
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- "Senate of Virginia House of Delegates; Jeion A. Ward". Archived from the original on 2008-12-05. Retrieved 2008-11-19.
- Jeion Joyner Ward for Delegate(Constituent/campaign website) Archived 2012-02-18 at the Wayback Machine
