father Sir Edmund Jenings was a barrister and Member of Parliament from Ripon in Yorkshire, England. In the 16th century, Jenings had traditionally worked...
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Edmund Jennings or Jenings may refers to: Edmund Jennings (Member of Parliament) (1626–1691), Member of Parliament for Ripon Edmund Jenings (governor)...
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Edmund Jennings Randolph (August 10, 1753 – September 12, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States, attorney, and the 7th Governor of Virginia...
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(1705–1706) Edmund Jenings, Acting Governor (1706–1710) General Robert Hunter, Lieutenant Governor (1707) Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant Governor (1710–1722)...
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elected as Governor but usurped from that office William Sherman Jennings (1863–1920), 18th Governor of Florida Edmund Jenings, Colonial Governor of Virginia...
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absentee) Lieutenant Governor Francis Nicholson (1698–1705) Lieutenant Governor Col. Edward Nott (1705–1706) Acting Governor Edmund Jenings (1706–1710) Lieutenant...
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Jenings patented 650 acres inland near the head of the Potomac River, based on people for whose immigration he had paid. In September 1663, Jenings and...
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administrator who served as the governor of Virginia from 1660 to 1677. One of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, as governor of Virginia he implemented...
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Edmund Andros (6 December 1637 – 24 February 1714; also spelled Edmond) was an English colonial administrator in British America. He was the governor...
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Robert Hunter (colonial administrator) (redirect from Governor Robert Hunter)
playwright and colonial administrator who successively served as the governors of New York, New Jersey and Jamaica. Robert Hunter was born c. 1666 in...
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Patrick Henry (category Governors of Virginia)
death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786. A native of Hanover...
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Proprietary in 1711, upon the suggestion of Thomas Corbin and his ally Edmund Jenings, who had been the colony's attorney general before returning to England...
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Charles T. O'Ferrall (category Democratic Party governors of Virginia)
then served as a U.S. Representative from 1883 to 1894 and as the 42nd Governor of Virginia from 1894 to 1898. Charles O'Ferrall was born in Brucetown...
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who served as acting Governor of Virginia for several days at the end of 1811 and beginning of 1812. Randolph was the son of Edmund Jennings Randolph, who...
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patented 500 acres at the head of the Potomac River, and he and Peter Jenings(who died in 1672) later patented 1,000 acres at the falls or head of the...
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Robert Carter I (category Colonial governors of Virginia)
Proprietary in 1702 though lost the lease to his political opponent, Edmund Jenings, in 1711. He regained the proprietary in 1722 and was involved in the...
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George Yeardley (category Colonial governors of Virginia)
Sir George Yeardley (b. 1587 – d. 1627-11-13) was a planter and colonial governor of the colony of Virginia. He was also among the first slaveowners in Colonial...
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man's daughter) Frances (1666-1713) married Edmund Jenings (1659-1727) son of British barrister Sir Edmund Jennings (1626-1691) and Margaret Barkham (1626-1726)...
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1712, Spotswood took advantage of the departure of the former governor Edmund Jenings and made Cocke secretary of the colony. In August 1713, the Virginia...
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when governor Francis Nicholson named him as the colony's attorney general. Chilton succeeded Edmund Jenings who had been promoted to the Governor's Council...
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by the appointment of the colonial governor or lieutenant governor, sometimes in consultation with the governor's council. The Virginia Constitution of...
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to the Governor's Council. Meanwhile, Charles Grymes married Frances Jenings, daughter of Edmund Jenings, a member of the Virginia Governor's Council...
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Claude A. Swanson (category Democratic Party governors of Virginia)
politician from Virginia. He served as U.S. Representative (1893–1906), Governor of Virginia (1906–1910), and U.S. Senator from Virginia (1910–1933), before...
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Thomas Nelson Jr. (category Governors of Virginia)
Fellow Virginia legislators elected him to serve as the commonwealth's governor in 1781, the same year he fought as a brigadier general in the siege of...
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J. Lindsay Almond (category Democratic Party governors of Virginia)
(1946–1948), 26th Attorney General of Virginia (1948–1957) and the 58th Governor of Virginia (1958–1962). As a member of the Byrd Organization, Almond initially...
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Thomas Lee (Virginia colonist) (category Colonial governors of Virginia)
position as Virginia-based agent, as had Jenings, and Carter regained it from this man in 1720 or 1722. While Jenings was in England, the agency's offices...
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1707. Although acting governor Edmund Jenings recommended Allen to the Board of Trade for appointment to the Virginia Governor's Council, he did not receive...
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Francis Howard, 5th Baron Howard of Effingham (category Colonial governors of Virginia)
1695) was an English peer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Virginia from 1683 to 1692. A member of the Howard family, he was a...
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Farrar Fitzhugh Gooch Graves Harrison Hill Hopkins Howell Jameson Jefferson Jenings Kennon Lee Madison Marshall Mathews McLean Nelson Norvell Pace Page Payne...
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Thomas Walker Gilmer (category Governors of Virginia)
several political positions in Virginia, including election as the 28th Governor of Virginia. Gilmer's final political office was as the 15th Secretary...
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