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Virginia General Assembly

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  • Colonel Elisha Ford Keen (1825 - 1868)
    Husband of Mary Emma Keen, Grandfather to Lady Nancy Langhorne Aster, PM, Viscountess, the first woman to set in the English House of Parliament, and Great Grandfather of the current Lord William Wal...
  • Rep. Augustus Alexander Chapman (1805 - 1876)
    US Congressman. Born Augustus Alexandria Chapman, in Union, Monroe County, Virginia, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced to practice law in his home town of Union, Virginia. H...
  • Kenton Harper (1801 - 1867)
    Kenton Harper (1801 – December 25, 1867) was an American newspaper editor, soldier, Indian agent, plantation owner, banker and politician. An officer of the Virginia militia then U.S. Army during the...
  • James Harvey Carson (1808 - 1884)
    GEDCOM Note ===Born on Thursday between 1 and 2:00 a.m. -- Hale"At the time of the Civil War, when General James Carson lived in the house ['Pleasant Green'], it is said he had a special drawer for his...
  • Kenneth Newcomer Gilpin, Sr. (1890 - 1947)
    Kenneth Newcomer Gilpin, Sr. Inscription, Lived at "Scaleby" In Clarke County Until His Death June 21, 1947. Ensign U.S. Naval Flying Corps World War I. Major U.S. Army Air Corps World War 2. A ...

The Virginia General Assembly is the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the oldest continuous law-making body in the New World, established on July 30, 1619. The General Assembly is a bicameral body consisting of a lower house, the Virginia House of Delegates, with 100 members, and an upper house, the Senate of Virginia, with 40 members. Combined together, the General Assembly consists of 140 elected representatives from an equal number of constituent districts across the commonwealth. The House of Delegates is presided over by a Speaker of the House, while the Senate is presided over by the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. The House and Senate each elect a clerk and sergeant-at-arms. The Senate of Virginia's clerk is known as the "Clerk of the Senate" (instead of as the "Secretary of the Senate," the title used in the federal Senate).

The Republican Party currently holds the majority in both the House of Delegates and the Senate.

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