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unusual facts about Virginia House


Wormleighton Manor

The eastern wing of Virginia House, completed in 1929, is said to be based on the design of Wormleighton Manor.



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Alleghany County, Virginia

Alleghany County is represented by Democrat R. Creigh Deeds in the Virginia Senate, Independent Lacey E. Putney in the Virginia House of Delegates, and Republican H. Morgan Griffith in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Bernard Cohen

Bernard S. Cohen (born 1937), politician and former Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates

Brian Moran

Moran spent the better part of 2006 and 2007 traveling the state to recruit and support House candidates for the 2007 election, when all 100 Virginia House of Delegates seats were on the ballot (as in every other odd-numbered year).

Carter Harrison

Carter Henry Harrison I (~1727 – 1793/1794), member of the Virginia House of Delegates

Edwin Cox

Edwin P. Cox (1870–1938), American politician in the Virginia House of Delegates

G. Manoli Loupassi

On November 6, 2007, Loupassi defeated independent incumbent Katherine Waddell and was elected to a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates representing portions of Chesterfield County and the City of Richmond.

Howard Wellman

He then served as Assistant to West Virginia Governor Jay Rockefeller from 1981 to 1984 when he was appointed to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1984 to fill a vacancy created by the death of Don Anello.

James Dillard

Jim Dillard, former member of the Virginia House of Delegates

James Edmunds

James E. Edmunds (born 1970), Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates

Jawaharlal Nehru Road

Some buildings from a later period include the "Kanak Building" (now housing offices of Citibank and Standered Chartered Bank) at the junction of Middleton Street, "Virginia House" (housing the headquarters of ITC) and the New Market Watch Tower building.

John Crittenden

John Crittenden, Sr. (1754–1809), veteran of the American Revolutionary War and member of the Virginia House of Burgesses

John Randolph

Sir John Randolph (1693–1737), Virginia colonial politician, Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses

McGuireWoods

Chris Peace — Member of the Virginia House of Delegates, McGuireWoods (2003–2006 )

Thomas Randolph

Thomas Jefferson Randolph (1792-1875), served in the Virginia House of Delegates

United States Senate election in Virginia, 1970

George C. Rawlings, Jr. (D), former member of the Virginia House of Delegates

Virginia Historical Society

Virginia House, situated on a hillside overlooking the historic James River in Richmond, Virginia, was constructed by Alexander W. Weddell, U.S. ambassador to Spain and Argentina, and his wife, Virginia Weddell, in 1928 from the materials of a sixteenth-century English manor house previously standing in Warwick.