John Page was an American politician. He served in the U.S. Congress and as the 13th Governor of Virginia.
Mann Page (1749–1781),sometimes referred to as Mann Page III,was an American lawyer,politician and planter from Spotsylvania County,Virginia,who served in the House of Burgesses and first Virginia House of Delegates as well as a delegate for Virginia to the Continental Congress in 1777. His elder half brother was Virginia Governor John Page. Since the name was common in the family,and five men of the same name served in the Virginia General Assembly,relationships are discussed below.
Hugh Blair Grigsby was an American lawyer,journalist,politician,planter and historian. In addition to representing Norfolk in the Virginia House of Delegates before the American Civil War,he served as the 16th Chancellor of the College of William &Mary from 1871 to 1881.
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.
Richard Corbin was a Virginia planter and politician who represented Middlesex County in the House of Burgesses and the Virginia Governor's Council. Although a noted Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War,he considered himself a Virginian and two of his descendants of the same name also served in the Virginia General Assembly following the conflict.
Col. John Tayloe II was the premier Virginia planter;a politician,and colonial Colonel in the Virginia Militia. Virginia. He served in public office including the Virginia Governor's Council,also known as the Virginia Council of State.
Nathaniel Burwell was an American politician and plantation owner. Perhaps the most distinguished of five men of that name to serve in the Virginia General Assembly before the American Civil War,this Nathaniel Burwell won election to the Virginia House of Delegates as well as the Virginia Ratifying Convention,and also served as the county lieutenant for the James City County militia.
Rosegill is a historic plantation house and farm complex located near Urbanna,Middlesex County,Virginia. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973.
Robert Wormeley Carter was a Virginia planter and patriot who served in the House of Burgesses,all five Virginia Revolutionary Conventions,and briefly in the Virginia House of Delegates,all representing his native Richmond County.
Robert Wormeley Carter II was a Virginia planter who served multiple terms in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly. In his early and last terms,he represented his native Richmond County in the Virginia House of Delegates,then for eight years represented the counties of the Northern Neck of Virginia in the Virginia Senate.
Sir Henry Chicheley was a lieutenant governor of Virginia Colony who also served as Acting Governor during multiple periods in the aftermath of Bacon's Rebellion. Having first visited the Virginia colony as a Royalist in exile,where he served in the House of Burgesses in violation of his probation,Lt. Gov. Chicheley wielded power during a period of sociopolitical turmoil and change,and later in his career was increasingly troubled by England's growing aggression and control over the colony.
Ralph Wormeley emigrated to the Virginia colony,where he became a planter and politician who represented York County in the House of Burgesses and developed Rosegill plantation in what became Middlesex County after his death.
Ralph Wormeley Jr. (1651-1701) was a planter and politician who represented Middlesex County in the House of Burgesses before being elevated to the Virginia Governor's Council and serving as the colony's secretary and briefly as its acting governor. He further developed his father's Rosegill plantation,now on the National Register for Historic Places,as well as operated several plantations in adjoining Tidewater counties using enslaved labor.
Ralph Wormeley who like his namesake grandfather was a planter and politician who represented Middlesex County in the House of Burgesses. He and his bookloving and loyalist son also operated Rosegill plantation,now on the National Register for Historic Places,using enslaved labor.
Gawin Corbin Jr.,although trained as a lawyer in England,became a Virginia planter,loyalist militia officer,customs collector and politician who served in both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly as had his father Richard Corbin.
Gawin Corbin (1669-1745) was a Virginia planter,militia officer,customs collector and politician who served in the House of Burgesses representing at various times Middlesex and King and Queen County. Two descendants of the same name would also serve in the House of Burgesses,Gawin Corbin Sr. and Gawin Corbin Jr.
William Churchill (1649–1710) emigrated from England and became a Virginia merchant,planter and politician who twice briefly served in the House of Burgesses representing Middlesex County,Virginia,and on the Virginia Governor's Council (1705–1710).
Francis Corbin was a Virginia lawyer,planter and politician,who represented Middlesex County in the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Ratifying Convention and later moved to Caroline County.
John Tayloe Corbin was a Virginia planter and politician who represented King and Queen County in the House of Burgesses. The son of powerful planter Richard Corbin,a member of the Governor's Council,he was likewise a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War,but remained in Virginia. He was named after his maternal grandfather John Tayloe I.
Dudley Digges was a Virginia attorney,planter,military officer and politician who served in the House of Burgesses (1752-1776) and all the Virginia Revolutionary conventions representing York County. Possibly the most famous of three related men of the same name who served in the Virginia legislature during the 18th century,this man was the third son of Yorktown merchant Cole Digges who served in both houses of the Virginia legislature.
