Charles Lee was an American lawyer and politician from Virginia who served as United States Attorney General from 1795 until 1801, and as United States Secretary of State ad interim from May 13, 1800, to June 5, 1800., after serving as prosecutor for the City of Alexandria and serving in the Virginia House of Delegates from Fairfax County.
The Randolph family of Virginia is a prominent political family, whose members contributed to the politics of Colonial Virginia and Virginia after statehood. They are descended from the Randolphs of Morton Morrell, Warwickshire, England. The first Randolph in America was Edward Fitz Randolph, who settled in Massachusetts in 1630. His nephew, William Randolph, later came to Virginia as an orphan in 1669. He made his home at Turkey Island along the James River. Because of their numerous progeny, William Randolph and his wife, Mary Isham Randolph, have been referred to as "the Adam and Eve of Virginia". The Randolph family was the wealthiest and most powerful family in 18th-century Virginia.
Col. Henry Lee II (1730–1787) of Alexandria, Westmoreland, Virginia Colony, was an American planter, soldier, and politician, the father of Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III, and grandfather of Robert E. Lee.
The Livingston family of New York is a prominent family that migrated from Scotland to the Dutch Republic, and then to the Province of New York in the 17th century. Descended from the 4th Lord Livingston, its members included signers of the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Several members were Lords of Livingston Manor and Clermont Manor, located along the Hudson River in 18th-century eastern New York.
Daniel McLean (MacLean or McClean) (October 2, 1770 in New Jersey – February 8, 1823 in Alexandria, Virginia) was a successful businessman in banking trade who owned one of the earliest sugar refineries in Alexandria, Virginia. He was also a chief benefactor of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Virginia. McLean's father, Donald McLean, was born in Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland.
The Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of Virginia, commonly known as "Grand Lodge of Virginia", claims to be the oldest independent masonic grand lodge in the United States with 27,000 members in over 276 lodges. Both the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania and the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts dispute this claim, each claiming to be the oldest Grand Lodge in the United States. The Grand Lodge of Virginia was constituted on 30 October 1778, with headquarters in Williamsburg, Virginia. The grand lodge relocated its offices to Richmond, Virginia, in 1784, where it remains to this day.
Peyton Short was a land speculator and politician in Kentucky. He was a member of the first Kentucky Senate. He was the brother of William Short; he married the daughter of John Cleves Symmes, and was a brother-in-law of future President William Henry Harrison.
George Mason V was an American planter, businessman, and militia officer. Mason was the eldest son of United States patriot, statesman, and delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention, George Mason IV and his wife Ann Eilbeck. He received his early education from private tutors at Gunston Hall and was given Lexington plantation on Mason's Neck by his father in 1774. In 1775, he named his plantation to commemorate the Battle of Lexington in Massachusetts.
Thomas Mason was an American businessman, planter and politician. As a son of George Mason, a Founding Father of the United States, Mason was a scion of the prominent Mason political family.
Events from the year 1799 in the United States.
Rice Hooe was the name of three Virginia colonists, two of whom served in the colonial House of Burgesses, and became ancestors of a family of planters important in northern Virginia and southern Maryland. Their descendants Alexander Hooe, Bernard Hooe Jr., James Hooe, two named John Hooe as well as John Hooe Jr., and William Hooe would all serve in the Virginia General Assembly before the American Civil War.
Bernard Hooe Jr. was a Virginia planter, merchant, lawyer, justice of the peace and legislator, who twice represented Prince William County in the Virginia House of Delegates, and served as mayor of Alexandria, Virginia.
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.
John Howe Peyton (1778–1847), was a Virginia lawyer and planter who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, representing Prince William County (part-time) in the House of Delegates from 1808 through 1810, and Augusta and Rockbridge County senate seat in the Virginia from 1839 until his death. One source incorrectly states that his cousin John Henry Peyton, also born in Stafford County but whose birth and death dates as well as plantation location are unspecified, was the Prince William delegate.
Kosciusko Kemper was a Confederate officer during the American Civil War, lawyer, and American politician, serving in post-war offices including Superintendent of Alexandria Public Schools and Mayor of Alexandria, Virginia.
Robert Townshend Hoee was a Revolutionary War officer, businessman, and politician who served as the first mayor of Alexandria, Virginia.
