William Mahone was an American civil engineer, railroad executive, Confederate States Army general, and Virginia politician.
Wyndham Robertson was the Acting Governor of the U.S. state of Virginia from 1836 to 1837. He also twice served multiple terms in the Virginia House of Delegates, the second series representing Richmond during the American Civil War.
Thomas Staples Martin was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Albemarle County, Virginia, who founded a political organization that held power in Virginia for decades and who personally became a U.S. Senator who served for nearly a quarter century and rose to become the Majority Leader before dying in office.
James Garland was a nineteenth-century politician, military officer, planter, lawyer an judge from Virginia.
Charles Wells Russell was a prominent Virginia lawyer and politician. He supported the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, serving as one of Virginia's delegates to the Provisional Confederate Congress and then the First and Second Confederate Congresses, although his home area seceded from the Commonwealth and became West Virginia during that war.
Waller Redd Staples was a Virginia lawyer, slave-owner and politician who was briefly a member of the Virginia General Assembly before the American Civil War, became a Congressman serving the Confederate States of America during the war, and after receiving a pardon at the war's end became a judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals, and law professor at Washington and Lee University, as well as revisor of Virginia's laws (1884-1887).
Peterson Goodwyn was a planter, lawyer, soldier and politician from Virginia.
James Herbert Gholson was a nineteenth-century congressman, planter, lawyer and judge from Virginia.
James Crawford Freeman was a Georgia planter and slaveowner who after serving in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War received a pardon and became a banker, jeweler and politician who served one term in the U.S. Representative as a Republican.
Daniel French Slaughter was Virginia planter and politician from two distinguished families of politicians and soldiers.
Thomas Gholson Jr. was an American lawyer and politician. He represented Virginia from 1808 to 1816 in the United States House of Representatives, after serving in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1806 to 1809.
Robert Murphy Mayo was a Virginia lawyer, Confederate officer and politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates and briefly in the U.S. Representative as a member of the Readjuster Party.
Robert Garlick Hill Kean was a Virginia lawyer. A Confederate States Army officer and bureaucrat during the American Civil War, he helped promulgate the Lost Cause of the Confederacy after the war, particularly since he became one of the last surviving members of the Confederate States bureaucracy. His wartime diary, published long after his death, provides insights into the inner workings of the Confederate government.
Philip St. George Cocke was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the first year of the American Civil War. He is best known for organizing the defense of Virginia along the Potomac River soon after the state's secession from the Union. He commanded troops in the Battle of Blackburn's Ford and the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861 before becoming despondent and committing suicide.
Philip Clayton Pendleton was a Virginia lawyer, planter, soldier and state judge who also briefly served as a United States federal judge as well as a Federalist, and four one-year terms in the Virginia House of Delegates representing Berkeley County.
Abner Wentworth Clopton Nowlin was a farmer, Confederate officer, politician, editor and lawyer from Virginia, who spent the final years of his life assisting fellow veterans and others at the Central Union Mission in Washington, D.C.
Moses Walton was a nineteenth-century Virginia lawyer who during the American Civil War served in the Virginia House of Delegates from September 7, 1863 until the war's end, and later in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868.
David J. Saunders was a Virginia businessman and politician. He served two terms representing the City of Richmond in the Virginia House of Delegates, and was President of Richmond's City Council during the American Civil War. After the city's surrender and during two periods during which Union military authorities removed long-time and pro-Confederate mayor Joseph C. Mayo, Saunders in effect managed the city, especially its waterworks and gasworks.
Robert E. Grant was a Virginia farmer and dentist who represented Washington County for one term in the Virginia House of Delegates and later at the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861. During the American Civil War, he recruited a company of the 37th Virginia Infantry, but failed to win re-election as captain, and ultimately moved to Texas in 1872 and re-established his practice.
William Wood Crump was an American lawyer and politician from Virginia. He briefly served as a judge, later became assistant Secretary of the Treasury for the Confederate States of America and twice briefly represented the City of Richmond in the Virginia House of Delegates as well as served at times on Richmond's City Council.
