1William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 25 February 1801 (Adams Papers)
Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Delegates 1776–2007
2Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker, 25 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
of the Virginia House of Delegates against
3Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Thweatt and Jerman Baker, 14 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
, not found, was read in the Virginia House of Delegates on 31 Dec. 1816 and referred to the select committee charged with considering the route of the proposed turnpike road from
4Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker, 23 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
. Baker began his career in the Virginia House of Delegates as a representative from
5From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Banks, 15 January 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
...Banks (1761–1836) was a Richmond merchant, lawyer, and land speculator who had supplied TJ with sundries in 1781 and had represented Greenbrier County in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1787 and 1788. Later in the present year, acting on behalf of the firm of Hunter, Banks & Company, he brought suit against TJ as former governor of Virginia to recover losses sustained during the British...
6Thomas Jefferson to Linn Banks and Edward Watts, 20 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1776–1955, which he represented in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1808–09. Watts sat in the
7Thomas Jefferson to Philip P. Barbour, 12 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
. From 1812–14 he represented that county in the Virginia House of Delegates, beginning shortly after his brother
8Thomas Jefferson to Philip I. Barziza, 1 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Virginia; House of Delegates [index entry]
9Thomas Jefferson to Philip I. Barziza, 24 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Virginia; House of Delegates [index entry]
10Thomas Jefferson to Burwell Bassett, 17 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
. In the Virginia House of Delegates he represented
11Enclosure: Executive Order to Thomas Beall and John Mackall Gantt, 10 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
George Brent (c.1762–1804) of Stafford County had served as an officer in the Revolutionary War and was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1789.
12Thomas Jefferson to Allen Bernard, 30 July [1818] (Jefferson Papers)
, which he represented during eight sessions of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1796, 1801–02, 1805–06, 1809–12, and 1813–15. Immediately after leaving the legislature he ran a hotel in
13From Thomas Jefferson to Michael Bowyer, 3 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...later known as White Sulphur Springs, in Greenbrier County. In the late 1760s and early 1770s, he was a deputy sheriff of Augusta County and employed TJ as his attorney in lawsuits. Bowyer was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in the mid-1780s. He did not receive the letter printed above until mid-May 1803, and replied on 28 June (Thomas A. Chambers,
14Thomas Jefferson to Nimrod Bramham, 5 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1811–13. He operated a store in in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1811–13
15Thomas Jefferson’s Bill of Complaint against the Directors of the Rivanna Company, [by 9 February 1817], document 1 in a … (Jefferson Papers)
Virginia; House of Delegates [index entry]
16Thomas Jefferson to James Breckinridge, 19 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
in the Virginia House of Delegates in April 1819. Following nomination by his fellow delegates
17Thomas Jefferson to James Breckinridge, 6 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
in the Virginia House of Delegates for thirteen terms, serving 1789–90, 1796–1802, 1806–08, 1819–21, and 1823–24. He won election to the
18From James Madison to John Brennan, 26 September 1825 (Madison Papers)
’s actions in the 1785–86 session of the Virginia House of Delegates in its support, see Bills for a Revised State Code of Laws, 31 Oct. 1785,
19From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Carroll Brent, 18 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...on the Potomac River, at Aquia Creek, in Stafford County, Virginia, and brother of Congressman Richard Brent. In 1782, Brent married Anne Fenton, daughter of Thomas Ludwell Lee. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1785 to 1787, 1799 to 1801, and 1812 to 1813. Winning a hard-fought campaign to serve as elector in 1796, Brent cast his vote for TJ. As a nephew of Daniel...
20From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown, 23 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
...that occasion were six senators and three other House impeachment managers, John Randolph, Caesar A. Rodney, and Joseph H. Nicholson. Also present at that dinner were Hugh Holmes, the speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, and Thomas Tudor Tucker, the treasurer of the United States. Holmes, whose brother was a congressman, testified as a prosecution witness in the impeachment trial...
21From Thomas Jefferson to William A. Burwell, 26 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...Harvie, his predecessor as secretary to the president. In addition to serving as secretary from 1804 to 1806, he represented Franklin County, where he had established a plantation, in the Virginia House of Delegates. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1806, he remained in that body for the rest of his life and maintained a close personal and political connection to TJ (Gerald...
22From Thomas Jefferson to William A. Burwell, 11 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
: according to Burwell’s later recollection, TJ and others worried that the Virginia House of Delegates would respond to the resolution of the Massachusetts General Assembly calling for the end of the three-fifths rule “in a style calculated rather to confirm the prejudices” of Virginia’s “enemies” in the north than to “...
23Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 16 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
in the Virginia House of Delegates: “
24Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 14 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Virginia; House of Delegates [index entry]
25Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 28 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Virginia; House of Delegates [index entry]
26Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 27 June 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1808–09, and sat for
27From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Carr, 21 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Francis Walker and Edward Garland were elected to the Virginia House of Delegates
28Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Carr, 16 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1818–19, and sat in the
29Thomas Jefferson to William Chamberlayne, 17 August 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
. He represented that county in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1791–96 and 1801–02, and sat in the
30Enclosure: David Ross to William Claiborne, 6 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne (1777–1859) received his education at the Richmond Academy and later moved to Franklin County, which he represented in the Virginia House of Delegates (1810–12) and in the state Senate (1821–25). Claiborne served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1825 to 1837.