Watkins "Wat" Moorman Abbitt was an American politician and lawyer. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia from February 17,1948 to January 3,1973. He was a top lieutenant within the Byrd Organization,the political machine named for its leader,U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd.
Andrew Jackson Montague was a Virginia lawyer and American politician. He served as the 44th Governor of Virginia,from 1902 to 1906,and a Congressman from 1912 until his death in 1937. A Democrat,Montague is best remembered as the first Virginia governor since the American Civil War not to have served in the Confederate military. Initially a Progressive,Governor Montague expanded the state capitol building,supported public education and the Good Roads Movement and opposed the Martin Organization. However,later as U.S. Congressman,he became a Conservative Democrat and supporter of the Byrd Organization.
Gerald Lee Baliles was a Virginia lawyer and Democratic politician whose career spanned great social and technological changes in his native state. The 65th Governor of Virginia,the native of Patrick County previously served as the Commonwealth's attorney general (1982–85),and represented Richmond and Henrico County in the Virginia House of Delegates (1972-1982). After another stint in private legal practice,with Hunton &Williams (1991-2005),Baliles directed the nonpartisan Miller Center of Public Affairs associated with his alma mater,the University of Virginia (2006-2014).
Julian Sargeant "Sarge" Reynolds of Richmond,Virginia was an American teacher,businessman,and Democratic politician. He served in both the House and Senate of the Virginia General Assembly and served as 30th Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia under Governor Linwood Holton. He died of an inoperable brain tumor at age 34,while in office as Virginia's Lieutenant Governor.
John Warwick Daniel was an American lawyer,author,and Democratic politician from Lynchburg,Virginia who promoted the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. Daniel served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly and both houses of the United States Congress. He represented Virginia the U.S. House from 1885 to 1887,and in the U.S. Senate from 1887 until his death in 1910.
John Marshall Coleman is an American lawyer and Republican politician who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly during the 1970s. He was the first Republican elected as Attorney General of Virginia since Reconstruction and served 1978–1982,although his later campaigns for Governor of Virginia and U.S. Senate proved unsuccessful.
James Garland was a nineteenth-century politician,military officer,planter,lawyer and judge from Virginia.
William Daniel,Jr. was an American slaveowner,lawyer,legislator and jurist who served on the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals,that state's highest court,from 1846 to 1865.
Menalcus ("Mack") Lankford was a Virginia lawyer,naval aviator and Republican politician who served two terms as U.S. Representative from Virginia's 2nd congressional district,whose largest city is Norfolk.
Thomas Walter Harrison was a Virginia lawyer,judge and politician. He served in the Senate of Virginia and in the United States House of Representatives.
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.
Alfred Dickinson Barksdale,frequently known as A. D. Barksdale,was an American soldier,Virginia lawyer,state senator,state court judge,and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.
The following offices were up for election in the United States Commonwealth of Virginia in the November 2009 general election:
Edwin Maxwell was an American lawyer,judge,and politician in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Maxwell served as Attorney General of West Virginia in 1866 and was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia from 1867 until 1872. He was elected to the West Virginia Senate and the West Virginia House of Delegates.
Edward Almer Ames Jr. was a Virginia lawyer and member of the Virginia General Assembly representing Virginia's Eastern shore between 1956 and 1968. A member of the Byrd Organization,Ames was also a member of the new legislative Boatwright Committee which investigated the NAACP as part of the Massive Resistance to racial integration vowed by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd after the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education.
Joseph Collier Hutcheson was a Virginia lawyer and member of the Virginia General Assembly representing Brunswick,Lunenburg and Mecklenburg Counties as a state Senator from 1958 until months before his death in 1972. A member of the Byrd Organization,Hutcheson opposed racial integration and was active in the Massive Resistance vowed by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd after the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education.
Howard Palmer Anderson was a Virginia attorney and Democratic Party politician.
Robert Sidney Burruss Jr. was a state Senator and businessman from Lynchburg,Virginia. In 1963 he became the first Republican elected to represent the area since Congressional Reconstruction.
Arthur Rossa "Pete" Giesen Jr. was an American politician and businessman,who represented a district in the Blue Ridge Mountains including Waynesboro,Virginia in the Virginia House of Delegates as a Republican for more than three decades.
Don Scott is an American politician. A Democrat,he is a member of the Virginia House of Delegates,representing the 80th district. He was elected Minority Leader of the Virginia House of Delegates on June 1,2022.
