The Restored (or Reorganized) Government of Virginia was the Unionist government of Virginia during the American Civil War (1861–1865) in opposition to...
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governor of Virginia is the state's head of government and commander-in-chief of the state's official national guard. The first Constitution of 1776 created...
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state offices, creating the Restored Government of Virginia. The "Restored" government was generally supported by the counties of the northern panhandle and...
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consequence of the war. Unionism was indeed strong also in other parts of the State, and during the war the Restored Government of Virginia was created...
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state governments in Virginia Confederate government of West Virginia, a rival government to the Restored Government of Virginia Irby, Jr., Richard E...
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one of its first acts, the Restored Government began the process of creating the new state of West Virginia, which was achieved in 1863. The Restored Government...
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Assembly of the Restored Government of Virginia passed an act granting permission for creation of West Virginia. Later, by its ruling in Virginia v. West...
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Francis Harrison Pierpont (category Republican Party members of the West Virginia House of Delegates)
Pierpont served as Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia and, in this capacity, administered the part of Virginia then under Unionist control...
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Francis Pierpont in 1861, which they called the Restored Government. Most voted to separate from Virginia, and the new state was admitted to the Union in...
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been occupied by Federal troops. The Restored Government of Virginia later recognized the new state of West Virginia, which was admitted to the Union on...
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acceptance of the new state of West Virginia into the union on June 20, 1863, until the Restored Government of Virginia's move to Alexandria in August of the...
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Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia, Second Wheeling Convention, August 16, 1861, quoted in Virgil Lewis, "How West Virginia Was Made",...
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The attorney general of Virginia is an elected constitutional position that holds an executive office in the government of Virginia. Attorneys general are...
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Border states (American Civil War) (category Former regions and territories of the United States)
consisting of many newly formed West Virginia regiments, had set up a loyalist "restored" state government of Virginia. Lincoln recognized this government and...
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Unionist Restored Government of Virginia. The Restored Government and the United States Congress approved the formation of the state of West Virginia, which...
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A government-in-exile (GiE) is a political group that claims to be the legitimate government of a sovereign state or semi-sovereign state, but is unable...
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Congress 1861, 1:272. (View the page cited) "VIRGINIA.; The Restored Government of Virginia—History of the New State of Things". The New York Times. June 26,...
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house for the Western District of Virginia, and later became the center of government for the Restored Government of Virginia from 1861 to 1863, with Francis...
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Bourbon Democrat (section West Virginia)
[page needed] West Virginia was formed in 1863 after Unionists from northwestern Virginia establish the Restored Government of Virginia. It remained in Republican...
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Wheeling Convention (redirect from Wheeling Convention of 1861)
own Restored Government of Virginia, recognized by the Federal government, and empowered to authorize the creation of a new state of West Virginia. The...
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Slave states and free states (category Political history of the United States)
legislature approved immediate abolition. The Restored Government of Virginia – the Unionist government that governed the limited territory then under...
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western Virginia formed the Unionist "Restored government of Virginia" in Wheeling opposed to the secessionist government in Richmond. West Virginia became...
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Secession in the United States (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from June 2024)
West Virginia was a part of Virginia until it was admitted as a new state in 1863 after the General Assembly of the Restored Government of Virginia consented...
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Arthur I. Boreman (category Republican Party governors of West Virginia)
established the Restored Government of Virginia, which the following year led to establishment of a separate State of West Virginia. His elder brother...
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modern-day Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. The first Virginia Conventions replaced the British colonial government on the authority of "the people"...
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they first formed the Union state of Virginia (recognized by Washington); it is called the Restored government of Virginia and was based in Alexandria, across...
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economy in Northern Virginia is driven by technology companies and U.S. federal government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Defense and Central...
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to reject the Virginia |ordinance of secession and establish the Unionist Restored Government of Virginia Virginia Loyalist Convention of 1864, constitutional...
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creation of the state of West Virginia were often known as, "loyal Virginians," who formed the Restored government of Virginia in Wheeling, West Virginia in...
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in a Union victory. A government loyal to the United States was established in Wheeling called the Restored Government of Virginia. Under its guidance a...
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