X-Nico

unusual facts about Virginia General Assembly


Virginia General Assembly, 1916

Senator G. Walter Mapp and temperance advocate James Cannon, Jr. (not to be confused with Senator James E. Cannon) drafted the final bill after voters endorsed a referendum in September 1914.


Covington and Ohio Railroad

In 1853, the Virginia General Assembly passed legislation authorizing the Board of Public Works to construct a railroad from Covington to the Ohio River.

Farmer's Delight

Lane, a member of the Virginia General Assembly in 1792-1793, was a colonel in the U.S. Army during the Whiskey Rebellion, and had been a member of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Mark Keam

In February 2010, Keam and fellow freshman delegate James LeMunyon, a Republican, authored an op-ed in The Washington Post about their introduction of a bill to the General Assembly, which would attempt make the voting records of General Assembly members more accessible to the public.

Novelty lighter

The Virginia Legislature recently passed legislation to ban novelty lighters, and is waiting for Virginia Governor Tim Kaine to sign the bill.

William Wirt Henry

William Wirt Henry (February 14, 1831 – December 5, 1900) was a Virginia lawyer and politician, historian and writer, a biographer of Patrick Henry—his grandfather, and who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, and was president of The Virginia Bar Association and the American Historical Association.


see also

Bath County, Virginia

The county is represented in the Virginia General Assembly by Senator Creigh Deeds and Delegate Ben Cline.

Twopenny

Two Penny Act, enacted in 1758 by the Virginia General Assembly

William Mahon

William Mahone (1826–1895), member of the Virginia General Assembly and U.S. Congress