King George County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census,the population sits at 26,723. Its county seat is the town of King George.
Bowling Green is an incorporated town in Caroline County,Virginia,United States. The population was 1,111 at the 2010 census.
Francis Lightfoot Lee was a Founding Father of the United States and a member of the House of Burgesses in the Colony of Virginia. As an active protester regarding issues such as the Stamp Act of 1765,Lee helped move the colony in the direction of independence from Britain. Lee was a delegate to the Virginia Conventions and the Continental Congress. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation as a representative of Virginia. In addition to his career in politics,Lee owned a tobacco plantation as well as many slaves. He was a member of the Lee family,a prominent Virginian dynasty.
The Northern Neck is the northernmost of three peninsulas on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Potomac River forms the northern boundary of the peninsula;the Rappahannock River demarcates it on the south. The land between these rivers was formed into Northumberland County in 1648,prior to the creation of Westmoreland County and Lancaster County.
William Fitzhugh was an American planter,legislator and patriot during the American Revolutionary War who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress for Virginia in 1779,as well as many terms in the House of Burgesses and both houses of the Virginia General Assembly following the Commonwealth's formation. His Stafford County home,Chatham Manor,is on the National Register for Historic Places and serves as the National Park Service Headquarters for the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.
Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter was an American lawyer,politician and planter. He was a U.S. representative,speaker of the House (1839–1841),and U.S. senator (1847–1861). During the American Civil War,Hunter became the Confederate States Secretary of State (1861–1862) and then a Confederate senator (1862–1865) and critic of President Jefferson Davis. After the war,Hunter failed to win re-election to the U.S. Senate,but did serve as the treasurer of Virginia (1874–1880) before retiring to his farm. After fellow Democrat Grover Cleveland was elected President of the United States in 1884,Hunter became the customs collector for the port of Tappahannock until his death.
Richard Elliott Parker was a lawyer,soldier,judge and politician in Virginia. Parker served in the Virginia House of Delegates and the United States Senate,before later serving on the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
Robert Brooke was a Virginia planter,soldier,lawyer,and politician who served as the tenth Governor of Virginia as well as in the Virginia House of Delegates,and as Attorney General of Virginia at the time of his death.
Colonel Thomas Lee was a planter and politician in colonial Virginia,and a member of the Lee family,a political dynasty. Lee became involved in politics in 1710,serving in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly,and also held important positions as Naval Officer for the Northern Potomac Region and agent for the Northern Neck Proprietary. After his father died,Lee inherited thousands of acres of land as well as enslaved people in then-vast Northumberland and Stafford Counties in Virginia as well as across the Potomac River in Charles County,Maryland. These properties were developed as tobacco plantations. Northumberland County was later subdivided,so some of Lee's properties were in present-day Fairfax,Fauquier,Prince William,and Loudoun counties and counties in the present-day Northern Neck of Virginia.
Col. Henry Lee II (1730–1787) was an American planter,military officer and politician from Westmoreland and later of Prince William County. Although he served in the Virginia General Assembly for three decades,as well as held local military and civilian offices,Lee may today be best known for Leesylvania plantation,having been overshadowed by his cousin Richard Henry Lee and his sons,especially his lawyer sons Charles,Edmund Jennings Lee I and Richard Bland Lee I and his somewhat scandal plagued firstborn son Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III.
Elliott Muse Braxton was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia. He owned slaves,served in the Confederate Army,and was a Democrat. He was the great-grandson of Carter Braxton.
John Lawrence Marye Jr.,was a Virginia lawyer,plantation owner,Confederate soldier and politician. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates during the American Civil War,and upon the legislature's election of Lt. Gov. John F. Lewis as one of Virginia's U.S. Senators following the Commonwealth's readmission to the Union,was elected the tenth Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (1870-1874) and as such presided over the Virginia Senate. Marye also represented Spotsylvania County in both the Virginia Secession Convention and the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868,when he was a leading opponent of Congressional Reconstruction.
Columbian Harmony Cemetery was an African-American cemetery that formerly existed at 9th Street NE and Rhode Island Avenue NE in Washington,D.C.,in the United States. Constructed in 1859,it was the successor to the smaller Harmoneon Cemetery in downtown Washington. All graves in the cemetery were moved to National Harmony Memorial Park in Landover,Maryland,in 1959. The cemetery site was sold to developers,and a portion used for the Rhode Island Avenue –Brentwood Washington Metro station.
National Harmony Memorial Park is a private,secular cemetery located at 7101 Sheriff Road in Landover,Maryland,in the United States. Although racially integrated,most of the individuals interred there are African American. In 1960,the 37,000 graves of Columbian Harmony Cemetery in Washington,D.C.,were transferred to National Harmony Memorial Park's Columbian Harmony section. In 1966,about 2,000 graves from Payne's Cemetery in D.C. were transferred to National Harmony Memorial Park as well.
The Commission on Education,known as the Perrow Commission after its chairman,Virginia state senator Mosby Perrow Jr.,was a 40-member commission established by Governor of Virginia J. Lindsay Almond on February 5,1959,after the Virginia Supreme Court in Harrison v. Day and a three-judge federal court in James v. Almond had both struck down significant portions of the Stanley Plan,which had implemented Massive Resistance to the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education issued on May 17,1954,and May 31,1955. Four legislators were appointed from each of the ten U.S. Congressional districts in Virginia. Compared to the Gray Commission that Governor Thomas B. Stanley had appointed five years previously,Perrow Commission included more representatives from cities,northern and Western Virginia,although many members served on both commissions.
Blake Tyler Newton was a Virginia lawyer,educator and Democratic member of the Senate of Virginia from Hague,Virginia. During the state's Massive Resistance crisis,Newton opposed public school closings,so that when his term expired,he was replaced on the State Board of Education by State Senator Garland Gray,who helped lead the Byrd Organization's opposition to racial desegregation of public schools after the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in Brown v. Board of Education.
Virginia's 28th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Senate of Virginia. It has been represented by Republican Richard Stuart since 2008.
Ludwell Lee was an American lawyer and planter who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly representing Prince William and Fairfax Counties and rose to become the Speaker of the Virginia Senate. Beginning in 1799,following the death of his first wife,Lee built Belmont Manor,a planation house in Loudoun County,Virginia,which today is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The 2023 Virginia Senate election was held on Tuesday,November 7,2023,concurrently with elections for the Virginia House of Delegates,to elect senators to all 40 seats in the Senate of Virginia for the 163rd and 164th Virginia Assembly. Nomination primaries held through the Department of Elections were held June 20,2023. These were the first elections held following redistricting as a result of the 2020 census. The Democrats retained control of the Senate.
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