The Political Graveyard: Virginia: State Senate

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Virginia: State Senate

Members of the Virginia State Senate, 1777-2007 (May be incomplete!)

Blank district: Edwin Gray 1777-79 Francis Lightfoot Lee 1778 William Fitzhugh 1781-85 Thomas Adams 1783-86 John Brown 1784-88 Hugh Nelson 1786-91 John Smith 1792 Burwell Bassett 1794-1805 Patrick Henry 1799 Thomas Monteagle Bayly 1801-09 John Pegram 1804-08 Richard Brent 1808-10 Alexander Smyth 1808 David Shepherd Garland 1809-11 John Love 1816-20 Francis Preston 1816-20 Robert Allen 1821-26 Francis White 1823-24 George Coke Dromgoole 1826 John Y. Mason 1827 John James Allen 1828 Joseph Draper 1828-30 John Hall Fulton 1829 Jacquelin Burwell Harvie 183? Francis E. Rives 1831-36 Robert M. T. Hunter 1835-37 Richard Kidder Meade 1835 LaFayette McMullen 1836-47 William Smith 1836 Charles J. Faulkner 1838-42 Archibald Atkinson 1839-43 William Ballard Preston 1840-44 James Lyons 184? Joel Pennybacker 184? Allen Taylor Caperton 1844-48 William Marshall Ambler 1845 John Warfield Johnston 1846 John S. Carlile 1847-51 Thomas Hamlet Averett 1848-49 Francis E. Rives 1848-51 James Keith Marshall 185? John D. Pennybacker 185? Elliott Muse Braxton 1852-56 Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart 1857-61 Williams Carter Wickham 1859 John Critcher 1861 William H. Dulany 1863-65 George Tankard Garrison 1863-65 John Critcher 1874-77 John William Lawson 1874 Bradley Ryler Johnson 1875-79 William H. F. Lee 1875 Paul C. Edmunds 1881-88 William E. Gaines 1883-87 Williams Carter Wickham 1883-88 Thomas W. Harrison 1887-94 R. Walton Moore 1887 Henry D. Flood 1891-1903 Walter A. Watson 1891-95 James Hay 1893-96 Carter Glass 1899-1902 George A. Revercomb 190? Edward E. Holland 1907-11 John R. Saunders 1908-18 William Henry Jeffreys IV 191? John Paul 1911-15 Patrick H. Drewry 1912-20 Harry F. Byrd 1915-25 C. O'Conor Goolrick 1915 A. Willis Robertson 1916-22 Joseph T. Deal 1919 John Paul 1919-22 Junius Edgar West 192? C. O'Conor Goolrick 1923 Alfred Dickinson Barksdale 1924-27 William M. Tuck 1932-42 John S. Battle 1934-50 John Warwick Rust 1938 Burr P. Harrison 1940-42 Charles T. Moses 1940-50 Burgess Nelson 1942-46 Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 1947-65 Raymond R. Guest 1947-53 Charles R. Fenwick 1948-67 Albert S. Harrison, Jr. 1948-59 Robert F. Baldwin, Jr. 1950 Thomas H. Blanton 1950 Edward L. Breeden, Jr. 1950 Frank P. Burton 1950 Robert Y. Button 1950 J. C. Carpenter, Jr. 1950 Curry Carter 1950 W. C. Caudill 1950 Andrew W. Clarke 1950 Charles W. Crowder 1950 Ted Dalton 1950 Earl A. Fitzpatrick 1950 James E. Gardner 1950 Morton G. Goode 1950 Garland Gray 1950 Ben T. Gunter, Jr. 1950 J. D. Hagood 1950 Major M. Hilliard 1950 S. Floyd Landreth 1950 M. M. Long 1950 Edward O. McCue, Jr. 1950 W. M. Minter 1950 L. U. Noland 1950 Robert O. Norris, Jr. 1950 George Palmer 1950 Mosby G. Perrow, Jr. 1950 Ben T. Pitts 1950 Frank S. Richeson 1950 Lloyd M. Robinette 1950 A. E. S. Stephens 1950 Harry C. Stuart 1950 Robert C. Vaden 1950 L. Paul Wailes 1950 George M. Warren 1950 William Vincent Rawlings 195? Mills E. Godwin, Jr. 1952-62 George S. Aldhizer II 1954-67 William B. Spong, Jr. 1956-66 Robert Fitzgerald 1964-71 Henry Evans Howell, Jr. 1966-71 Herbert H. Bateman 1968-83 Virgil H. Goode, Jr. 1973-97 Rick Boucher 1974-83 Robert C. Scott 1983-92 Edward L. Schrock 1995-2001 Jeannemarie Devolites Davis 2004
1st District: E. Almer Ames, Jr. 1956-67
14th District: J. Randy Forbes 1997-2001
15th District: Richard J. Holland, Sr. 1980-2000
16th District: Henry L. Marsh III 1992-2000
25th District: Emily Couric 1996-2001
26th District: Mark Obenshain 2004-
30th District: Patsy Ticer 1996-99
43rd District: Lloyd C. Bird 1943-50

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1855: Harvey Deskins, elected.

1967: Herbert H. Bateman (Dem), elected.

1979: Richard J. Holland, Sr. (Dem), elected.

1983: Richard J. Holland, Sr. (Dem), elected.

1987: Richard J. Holland, Sr. (Dem), elected.

1991: Richard J. Holland, Sr. (Dem), elected.

1995: Richard J. Holland, Sr. (Dem), elected.

1999: Richard J. Holland, Sr. (Dem), elected.

1991: Henry L. Marsh III, elected.

1995: Emily Couric (Dem), elected.

1999: Emily Couric (Dem), elected.

1995: Patsy Ticer (Dem), elected.

1999 Nov 2: C. W. 'Levi' Levy, defeated.

2000 Apr 16: Richard J. Holland, Sr., died in office.

2001 Oct 18: Emily Couric, died in office.

2003: Mark Obenshain (Rep), elected.

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

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