House of Burgesses (/ˈbɜːrdʒəsɪz/) was the lower house of the Virginia General Assembly from 1619 to 1776. It existed during the colonial history of the...
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the modern-day successor to the colonial House of Burgesses, which first met at Jamestown in 1619. The House is divided into Democratic and Republican...
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office five times, serving two terms in the Virginia House of Burgesses and two terms as President of the United States. He is the only independent elected...
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William Kempe (burgess), see List of members of the Virginia House of Burgesses William Kemp (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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member of the legislative body, which was termed the "House of Burgesses". In Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, the Burgess, or Chief Burgess, was...
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Peyton Randolph (category Speakers of the Virginia House of Burgesses)
Father of the United States. Born into Virginia's wealthiest and most powerful family, Randolph served as speaker of Virginia's House of Burgesses, president...
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William Hatcher (politician) (redirect from William Hatcher (burgess))
Hatcher was an English immigrant to America and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. William Hatcher (abt. 1613 - bef 1680) emigrated from England...
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Joseph Jones (North Carolina politician) (category Members of the North Carolina House of Burgesses)
Joseph Jones was a member of the Province of North Carolina House of Burgesses, First North Carolina Provincial Congress, and North Carolina State Senate...
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the upper house of the legislature. Members of the lower house of the legislature, the House of Burgesses, were elected from precincts (counties after...
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Assembly National Assembly Lok Sabha House of Representatives House of Lords General Assembly House of Burgesses State Legislature Legislature Congress...
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Thomas Jefferson (redirect from 3rd President of the United States of America)
support of older slaves and requiring special permission for freed slaves to remain within the state. "Burgesses and Delegates". Virginia House of Delegates...
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but he returned to Virginia two weeks later to preside over the House of Burgesses. John Hancock was elected to fill the vacancy, but his position was...
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Alexander Spotswood (category British Army personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
intensified the hostility of the representatives against the governor, it was rather his definition of the House of Burgesses as "a Set of Representatives, whom...
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Thomas Dowse (category House of Burgesses members)
English-American immigrant who represented City of Henricus in the first meeting of the House of Burgesses on July 30, 1619 at Jamestown, Virginia. Dowse...
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served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, in the House of Burgesses representing Lancaster County before the creation of Middlesex County...
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Benjamin Harrison V (category House of Burgesses members)
Harrison family of Virginia at their homestead, the Berkeley plantation. He served an aggregate of three decades in the Virginia House of Burgesses, alternately...
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The speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses was the presiding officer of the House of Burgesses, the lower house of the Virginia General Assembly during...
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John Blair Jr. (category Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States)
Virginia lawyer since 1757, Blair represented the College of William and Mary in the House of Burgesses (while his father served on the Governor's Council)...
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chemistry Burgess Shale, a fossil-bearing formation near Mount Burgess in Canada Church Burgesses, an English charitable organisation House of Burgesses, Virginia...
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in the Virginia House of Burgesses. His son Benjamin II (1645–1712) served as county sheriff and in the House of Burgesses, and also was appointed to...
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George Mason (category Members of the Virginia House of Delegates)
supervising his lands, family, and slaves. He briefly served in the House of Burgesses and involved himself in community affairs, sometimes serving with...
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state that he used 160 gallons of rum to treat 391 voters to bumbu during campaigning for the Virginia House of Burgesses in July 1758. Oxford English Dictionary...
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Bacon's Rebellion (redirect from Siege of Piscataway)
had his men take aim at the burgesses viewing the street spectacle from the windows of nearby houses. When the burgesses invited Bacon into their Long...
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Lawrence Washington (1659–1698) (category House of Burgesses members)
Library 1978) pp. 47, 48, 51 Norris p. 151 "Members of the House of Burgesses". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Richmond, Virginia: The Virginia...
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of Speaker of the lower house of the legislature in the Province of Carolina, called the House of Burgesses. Since the House was the only elected body...
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settled in Charles City, Virginia and was a burgess in the first general assembly of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1619 with whom he is sometimes erroneously...
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George Washington (redirect from 1st President of the United States of America)
and subsequently became head of the Virginia Regiment in 1755. He was later elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses and was named a delegate to the...
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Commissioner (and former Speaker of the House of Burgesses) Francis Moryson once addressed Custis as "honest Jack", although some of his neighbors alluded to...
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Hugh Gwyn (category House of Burgesses members)
legally-sanctioned slave in the Colony of Virginia, John Punch. Gwyn served several terms in the Virginia House of Burgesses and was a justice. Sir Hugh Gwyn...
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John Fleming (judge) (category House of Burgesses members)
a judge in Cumberland County, Virginia who served in the Virginia House of Burgesses for more than a decade, working with John Robinson and Peyton Randolph...
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