The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830 was a constitutional convention for the state of Virginia, held in Richmond from October 5, 1829, to...
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constitutional conventions took place in 1829–30, 1850, around the time of the Civil War in 1864, 1868, and finally in 1902. These early conventions without...
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Harrison Ruffin Tyler (category Harrison family of Virginia)
honor. Tyler had a series of mini-strokes starting in 2012 and has dementia as of 2020. As of 2021, he lives in a Virginia nursing home, and his son William...
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themselves. In addition, the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830 gave the slave-owning counties the benefit of three-fifths of their slave population...
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Constitution Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830, constitutional convention Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, constitutional convention Virginia...
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The Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 was called in the state capital of Richmond to determine whether Virginia would secede from the United States...
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he called for a convention of the six free and six slave border states to resolve the sectional split. Governor John Letcher of Virginia had already made...
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William Henry Fitzhugh (category Members of the Virginia House of Delegates)
21, 1830) was Virginia planter and politician who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, as well as in the Virginia constitutional convention...
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Fleming Bowyer Miller (category Members of the Virginia House of Delegates)
Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830, Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 and the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861. The son of...
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On January 6, 1830 John Macrae resigned as one of Fauquier County's delegates to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830 and Thomas Marshall...
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Webster–Ashburton Treaty (redirect from Treaty of Washington (1842))
from the Lake of the Woods never intersects the Mississippi. The Anglo-American Convention of 1818 defined the boundary about Lake of the Woods to the...
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statesman of western Virginia who was the leading voice for westerners during the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830. When it was announced...
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John R. Cooke (category Members of the Virginia House of Delegates)
House of Delegates and became a key delegate in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Born in Bermuda to physician Stephen Cooke and his...
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increased until a constitutional convention was convened in 1829–1830. This convention became largely a contest between eastern Virginia planters of the slaveholding...
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Philip P. Barbour (category Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia)
delegate for the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830, and the Convention elected him their second president, after the Convention's first president...
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Constituent assembly (redirect from Constitutional convention (political meeting))
(also known as a constitutional convention, constitutional congress, or constitutional assembly) is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising...
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Lucas P. Thompson (category Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia)
Convention of 1829–1830, alongside James Pleasants, William F. Gordon and Thomas Massie Jr. Following that Constitution's ratification, the Virginia General...
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William Henry Brodnax (category Members of the Virginia House of Delegates)
Master of Arts degree from there in 1830 at age forty-four following his service as a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Brodnax...
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John Laidley (category Virginia lawyers)
elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830, appointed to the Committee of the Judicial Department. He was one of four delegates elected...
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Briscoe Baldwin (category Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia)
debates over representation of western Virginia and the future of slavery in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830, Baldwin represented Augusta...
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Thomas Monteagle Bayly (category Members of the Virginia House of Delegates)
law. He was elected a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. He returned to the House of Delegates in 1819, 1820 and from 1828...
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The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 was an assembly of elected delegates chosen by the voters to write the fundamental law of Virginia. It...
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John Rogers Cooke (category Cooke family of Virginia)
term in the Virginia House of Delegates during the War of 1812 and figured prominently in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830. His sister...
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Seaton, 1832. Grigsby, Hugh B. The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830: A Discourse Delivered before the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond...
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John Tyler (redirect from 10th President of the United States of America)
1826. In 1829, Tyler was elected as a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830 from the district encompassing the cities of Richmond...
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husbands of our wives." Randolph retired from the US House in 1828. He was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830 as a delegate...
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Hugh Blair Grigsby (category Writers from Norfolk, Virginia)
elected delegate) became one of his Tidewater district's delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830. Although some delegates proposed...
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Robert B. Taylor (redirect from William P. Taylor (Virginian))
but declined. In 1829, Taylor was elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. He was chosen by the Convention to serve on the Committee...
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Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830, and Edward's son John Arthur Campbell represented the area at the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861...
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John Alexander Tyler (category People of Virginia in the American Civil War)
Tyler estate, Sherwood Forest Plantation, near Charles City, Virginia. After the death of his father, at age 14 he ran away from home to enlist in the...
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