11From Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 30 October 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
...of William and Mary, from which he graduated in 1791. Completing his studies in John Wickham’s law office in Richmond, he became an attorney in 1796. He served intermittently in the Virginia House of Delegates, the first time from 1798 to 1800. He was then elected to Congress to complete John Marshall’s term. In 1802 he moved from Williamsburg to Norfolk, where he became a leading...
12From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 22 November 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
, see Vol. 9:71. The Virginia House of Delegates on 28 Dec. began discussion of a committee report on the need for reorganization of the High
13To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 26 November 1799 (Madison Papers)
William Wirt, a Richmond lawyer, replaced the Federalist John Stuart as clerk of the Virginia House of Delegates (Beeman,
14From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Carr, 21 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Francis Walker and Edward Garland were elected to the Virginia House of Delegates
15Summary of Public Service, [after 2 September 1800] (Jefferson Papers)
presented to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1778, see Vol. 2:526–35. The act to establish primary schools passed by the Virginia Assembly in December 1796 left implementation to the discretion of county courts and relied on local funding (Vol. 29:178n,...