Thomas Lewis Jr. was an American politician from Rockingham County,Virginia. He represented Virginia in the U.S. House in 1803 and 1804,after several terms in the Virginia House of Delegates representing Kanawha County.
Richard Dudley Obenshain was an American politician and attorney. Obenshain had served as the chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia and was nominated in 1978 to run as the Republican nominee for the United States Senate but died prior to the election.
John Marshall Coleman is an American lawyer and Republican politician who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly during the 1970s. He was the first Republican elected as Attorney General of Virginia since Reconstruction and served 1978–1982,although his later campaigns for Governor of Virginia and U.S. Senate proved unsuccessful. In 1994,he mounted an unsuccessful independent campaign for the United States Senate,finishing third with 11% of the vote.
John Thomas Harris was a nineteenth-century politician,lawyer and judge from Virginia. He was often referred to after the American Civil War as "Judge Harris",even after his election to Congress. He was the first cousin of John Hill.
John Paul was a United States representative from Virginia and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.
Jacob Aaron Garber was a teacher and businessman who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly as well as in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican.
John Chewning Watkins is a Virginia businessman and politician,who served in the Virginia General Assembly for 34 years. A Republican,Watkins served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1982 to 1998,when he was elected to the Senate of Virginia. He represented the 10th district,situated in part of the city of Richmond and its westerly suburbs,including all of Amelia and Powhatan counties and parts of four others.
Benjamin Lee Cline is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 6th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he represented the 24th district in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2002 to 2018.
Virginia's 1999 state elections were held on November 2,1999. Voters elected all 100 members of the Virginia House of Delegates to two-year terms ending in 2002,and all 40 members of the Virginia Senate to four-year terms ending in 2004. There were also elections for local offices in most counties. The elections resulted in the loss of Democratic control of the House of Delegates for the first time in 116 years,and continued the two-year control of the Senate by Republicans.
Tony O. Wilt is an American politician. A Republican,he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2010. He currently represents the 34th district,made up of the city of Harrisonburg and part of Rockingham County in the Shenandoah Valley.
Clifton Alexander "Chip" Woodrum III was a Virginia lawyer and politician.
The 1978 United States Senate election in Virginia was held on November 7,1978. Incumbent Republican Senator William L. Scott did not run for re-election to a second term. Republican former Secretary of the Navy John Warner narrowly defeated Democratic Attorney General of Virginia Andrew P. Miller to succeed him. Originally,this election was a match between Republican Richard Obenshain and Miller,then Obenshain died in a plane crash,leaving the party in disarray. Warner was then nominated to run in Obenshain's place,and his victorious election thrust him into a thirty-year career in the United States Senate,which started with this election.
George Bernard Keezell was a Virginia farmer,newspaperman and Democratic politician who served as a member of the Virginia Senate and later in the Virginia House of Delegates,in both representing his native Rockingham County.
Alfred Victor "Vic" Thomas (1929–2006) was a Virginia businessman and politician. As a Democrat,he represented parts of Roanoke and Roanoke County,Virginia in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1974 until 2004.
Jacob Nicholas Liggett was a Virginia lawyer,Confederate officer,farmer and politician from Virginia.
Arthur Rossa "Pete" Giesen Jr. was an American politician and businessman,who represented a district in the Blue Ridge Mountains including Waynesboro,Virginia in the Virginia House of Delegates as a Republican for more than three decades.
Bonnie Lineweaver Paul is a Virginia lawyer and Republican politician,who represented a district in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Virginia House of Delegates for two terms.
Virginia's 34th 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 34 currently represents the city of Harrisonburg and part of Rockingham County in the Shenandoah Valley. The district is currently represented by Republican Tony Wilt.
Phoebe May Orebaugh is a retired American teacher and politician of the Republican Party. She represented the 27th district,consisting of the City of Harrisonburg and part of her native Rockingham County in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1983–1986 and 1988-1992.
Ward Clinton Swank was a Virginia lawyer and politician who served for a decade in the Virginia Senate,then for nearly a decade as mayor of Harrisonburg,Virginia during the Great Depression.
