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Stevens Thomson Mason was a Virginia lawyer and plantation owner who served as a Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War,delegate in the Virginia General Assembly and a Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia (1794–1803).
Robert "King" Carter was a merchant,planter and powerful politician in colonial Virginia. Born in Lancaster County,Carter eventually became one of the richest men in the Thirteen Colonies. As President of the Virginia Governor's Council,Carter served as the royal governor of Virginia from 1726 to 1727 after the previous governor,Hugh Drysdale,died in office. He acquired the moniker "King" from fellow Virginians in his lifetime connoting his wealth,autocratic business methods and political power. Carter also served as the colony's Treasurer,many terms in the House of Burgesses and twice fellow members elected him as their Speaker.
William H. Cabell was a Virginia lawyer,politician,plantation owner and judge aligned with the Democratic-Republican party. He served as Member of the Virginia House of Delegates,as Governor of Virginia,and as judge on what later became the Virginia Supreme Court. Cabell adopted his middle initial in 1795—which did not stand for a name—to distinguish himself from other William Cabells,including his uncle,William Cabell Sr.
Thomas Ludwell Lee,Sr. was a Virginia planter and politician who served in the House of Burgesses and later the Virginia Senate,and may be best known as one of the editors of the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
Bartholomew Dandridge was an early American planter,lawyer and patriot. He represented New Kent County in the House of Burgesses,all five Virginia Revolutionary Conventions,and once in the Virginia House of Delegates before fellow legislators selected him as a judge of what later became known as the Virginia Supreme Court.
Robert Carter Nicholas was a Virginia lawyer,patriot,legislator and judge. He served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and its successor,the Virginia House of Delegates. He became the last treasurer of the Colony of Virginia,and sat on the first High Court of Chancery,one of the predecessors of the Supreme Court of Virginia.
Captain Anthony Armistead was a planter,militia officer,politician and Justice of the Peace in the Colony and Dominion of Virginia in the British Empire. He may be best known for participating in the courts-martial after Bacon's Rebellion in 1676,for his own multiple terms in the House of Burgesses representing Elizabeth City County,Virginia,or for increasing the wealth and political prominence of his Tidewater Virginia family.
Robert Ellyson was a politician,military officer and physician who emigrated from Scotland to Saint Mary's County in the Province of Maryland and later moved to the Colony of Virginia,where he also held various offices,including thrice representing James City County in the House of Burgesses.
William Fitzhugh Gordon was a nineteenth-century,lawyer,military officer,politician and planter from the piedmont region of Virginia.
Thomson Mason was a prominent Virginia lawyer,planter and jurist. A younger brother of George Mason IV,United States patriot,statesman,and delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention,Thomson Mason would father Stevens Thomson Mason,and was the great-grandfather of Stevens T. Mason,first Governor of Michigan.
John Tyler Sr. was an American lawyer,planter,politician and judge who served in the Virginia House of Delegates and became 15th Governor of Virginia and later United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Virginia. Nonetheless,he may be best known as the father of President John Tyler.
Peter Beverley (1663–1728) emigrated to the Colony of Virginia where he became a wealthy planter,lawyer,Speaker of the House of Burgesses and Treasurer.
Robert Andrews was a Colonial/American clergyman who became a military chaplain during the American Revolutionary War,then professor at the College of William and Mary as well as author and politician who represented James City County in the Virginia Ratification Convention,then represented Williamsburg in the Virginia House of Delegates (1790-1799).
The Burwells were among the First Families of Virginia in the Colony of Virginia. John Quincy Adams once described the Burwells as typical Virginia aristocrats of their period:forthright,bland,somewhat imperious and politically simplistic by Adams' standards. In 1713,so many Burwells had intermarried with the Virginia political elite that Governor Spotswood complained that " the greater part of the present Council are related to the Family of Burwells...there will be no less than seven so near related that they will go off the Bench whenever a Cause of the Burwells come to be tried."
Francis H. Peyton was a Virginia planter and patriot in the American Revolutionary War,and who represented Loudoun County,Virginia in the House of Burgesses,Virginia Conventions and both houses of the Virginia General Assembly.
Burwell Bassett,Sr. was an American planter,patriot and politician from New Kent County in the Commonwealth of Virginia,who served in both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly,and in the Virginia Ratification Convention in 1788.
Bernard Moore (1720–1775) was a prominent landowner and member of the Virginia House of Burgesses representing King William County. His brother-in-law,powerful speaker John Robinson made unauthorized loans to Moore and other allies,discovered after Robinson's death in 1766,which caused his estate's administrator Edmund Pendleton and creditors including George Washington to auction Moore's land and 55 slaves.
Robert Wormeley Carter 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.
John Dandridge was a Virginia lawyer,planter and politician in New Kent County,Virginia,which he represented in the Virginia House of Delegates for four terms.
William Armistead was a Virginia planter,merchant and politician in New Kent County,Virginia,which he twice represented in the House of Delegates.