Stafford County is located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is a suburb outside of Washington D.C. It is approximately 40 miles (64 km) south of D.C. It is part of the Northern Virginia region,and the D.C area. It is one of the fastest growing,and highest-income counties in America. As of the 2020 census,the population sits at 156,927. Its county seat is Stafford.
Prince William County is located on the Potomac River in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census,the population sits at 482,204,making it Virginia's second-most populous county. Its county seat is the independent city of Manassas.
Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist minister and radical writer. At various times Methodist,Unitarian,and a Freethinker,he descended from patriotic and patrician families of Virginia and Maryland but spent most of the final four decades of his life abroad in England and France,where he wrote biographies of Edmund Randolph,Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Paine and his own autobiography. He led freethinkers in London's South Place Chapel,now Conway Hall.
Northern Virginia,locally referred to as NOVA or NoVA,comprises several counties and independent cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It is a widespread region radiating westward and southward from Washington,D.C. With 3,197,076 people according to the 2020 Census,it is the most populous region of Virginia and the Washington metropolitan area.
Colonel Stevens Thomson Mason was an American lawyer,military officer and planter who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Mason was also a delegate in the Virginia General Assembly and a Republican U.S. Senator from 1794 to 1803.
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.
John Francis Mercer was an American lawyer,planter,and politician from Virginia and Maryland,who served as Maryland's governor,as well as terms in the Continental Congress,U.S. House of Representatives,Virginia House of Delegates,and Maryland State Assembly A Founding Father of the United States,he was a delegate to the Philadelphia Convention which wrote the U.S. Constitution.
Richard Cassius Lee Moncure was a Virginia politician and jurist,serving for more than 25 years on what became the Virginia Supreme Court.
Jill Kendrick Holtzman Vogel is an American attorney and politician serving as the Virginia State Senator from the 27th district since 2008. A Republican,her district is located in exurban and rural parts of Northern Virginia,and it includes all of Clarke,Fauquier,and Frederick counties,Winchester city,as well as pieces of Culpeper,Loudoun,and Stafford counties.
Mark Lanze Cole is an American politician of the Republican Party. From 2002 until 2022 he was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. He represented the 88th district in the Virginia Piedmont,made up of parts of Fauquier,Spotsylvania and Stafford Counties,and the City of Fredericksburg,Virginia. Cole did not run for re-election in 2021.
Robert Eden Scott was a prominent Virginia planter,lawyer and politician who served many terms in the Virginia General Assembly. He also represented Fauquier County at the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 and the surrounding district in the Provisional Confederate Congress,until his death at the hands of Union Army deserters while defending his farm.
Chester Jefferson Stafford was a Virginia lawyer and politician. Elected in 1971 as a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates,he represented what had been Virginia's 12th district but was renumbered Virginia's 5th district after the 1972 census,which included parts of Carroll,Giles,Montgomery,and Pulaski counties;and the city of Radford from 1972 until his death.
The 2014 United States Senate election in Virginia was held on November 4,2014,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Virginia,concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate,elections to the United States House of Representatives,and various state and local elections.
William James Howell is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia. He represented Virginia's 28th House of Delegates district from 1992 until 2018 and served as Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates from 2003 to 2018. He also serves as chairman of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission. Presiding over the House during a period of Republican dominance in that chamber,Howell has been applauded by many in and out of his party as a pragmatic leader but is also notable for heading Virginia's controversial redistricting efforts following the 2010 census and firmly opposing efforts to expand Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Frank Peyton Moncure,was a Virginia lawyer and politician who represented Prince William and Stafford Counties in the Virginia General Assembly for more than two decades.
Stanley Albert Owens was a Virginia lawyer and Democratic politician who served part-time as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates,representing Prince William County,Virginia for 15 years,initially with Stafford County and eventually,Loudoun County.
The Virginia House of Delegates election of 2017 was held on Tuesday,November 7. All 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates were contested. The Republican Party held a 66–34 majority in the House of Delegates before the election but lost 15 seats to the Democratic Party,resulting in the Republicans holding a 50–49 advantage. After a recount,the result of the election in the 94th district was called a tie. The candidate to hold the seat was determined by random drawing on January 4,2018,which resulted in the Republicans holding a 51–49 majority.
Virginia's 88th 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 88 covers part of Fauquier County,Spotsylvania County,Stafford County,and part of the city of Fredericksburg,Virginia. This district is currently represented by Republican Phillip Scott.
Robert M. "Bob" Thomas,Jr. is an American businessman,Marine Corps veteran,and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates. In 2017 he ran for the House of Delegates in the 28th district to succeed the retiring incumbent Speaker Bill Howell. After a very close race and multiple legal issues,Thomas was certified as the winner and was sworn in as scheduled on January 10,2018.
Joshua Gregory Cole is an American politician. A Democrat,he is a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates,representing the 28th district which encompasses Stafford County,Virginia and Fredericksburg,Virginia in Northern Virginia. Cole is also a member of the Democratic National Committee since elected by the Democratic Party of Virginia at the 2020 convention.
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