Augustus Alexandria Chapman was a 19th-century politician and lawyer from Virginia. Chapman served several terms in the Virginia House of Delegates, as well as one term in the United States House of Representatives. He was also elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850.
William Penn Taylor was a nineteenth-century congressman from Virginia.
William Smith was an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century congressman from Virginia.
James Barbour was a Virginia lawyer, planter, politician and Confederate officer. He represented Culpeper County, Virginia in the Virginia General Assembly, as well as in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 and the Virginia secession convention of 1861. Barbour also served among Virginia's delegates to the 1860 Democratic National Convention, and as a major in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Peter K. Jones was an American Republican politician who served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, representing Greensville County from 1869 to 1877. He was one of the first African-Americans to serve in Virginia's government.
The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868, was an assembly of delegates elected by the voters to establish the fundamental law of Virginia following the American Civil War and the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. The Convention, which met from December 3, 1867 until April 17, 1868, set the stage for enfranchising freedmen, Virginia's readmission to Congress and an end to Congressional Reconstruction.
Louis C. H. Finney was a nineteenth-century American politician and Confederate Lieutenant Colonel from Virginia.
Arthur R. Smith was a nineteenth-century American doctor and politician from Virginia.
James Alfred Jones was a nineteenth-century American politician from Virginia.
John R. Edmunds was a nineteenth-century American politician from Virginia.
Drury W. K. Bowles was a nineteenth-century American politician from Virginia.
James E. Stewart was a nineteenth-century American politician from Virginia.
Benjamin H. Smith was a nineteenth-century American politician from Virginia. A U.S. District Attorney for both Whig President Millard Fillmore and Republican Abraham Lincoln, Smith also participated in Constitutional Conventions for both Virginia (1850) and West Virginia (1865).
Albert G. Pendleton was a nineteenth-century American politician from Virginia. Pendleton served multiple terms in the Virginia House of Delegates and was elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850.
John Chesterfield Woodson was a nineteenth-century American lawyer and politician from Virginia.
Jonathan Catlett Gibson, Jr. was a nineteenth-century Virginia lawyer, farmer and Confederate soldier who represented Fauquier County in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868 and later Culpeper County in the Virginia House of Delegates.
Frank Moss was a free-born nineteenth-century African-American farmer and politician from Buckingham County, Virginia. He was the only Africa-American in Virginia to be a member of the Constitutional Convention, the Virginia Senate and the Virginia House of Delegates.
John Robinson (1822–1900) was an innkeeper, postmaster, and politician who represented Cumberland County, Virginia in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868 and later served in the Virginia Senate representing Cumberland and adjoining counties.
Peter G. Morgan, born enslaved, after the American Civil War became a nineteenth-century African-American politician from Virginia.
James W. D. Bland was a nineteenth-century African-American politician and carpenter from Virginia. After the Civil War, he was elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868 and then to the Virginia State Senate.
