There his vote, along with those of Chairman Howard Smith, the courtly Virginia judge, and the four Republican members, could and often did produce a 6-6 deadlock that blocked far-out, Democratic-sponsored welfare legislation ( a tactic often acceptable to the Rayburn-Johnson congressional leadership to avoid embarrassing votes ).

In 1797, it was anything but peaceful, as Samuel Mason, who was initially a Revolutionary War Patriot captain in the Ohio County, Virginia militia and a former associate judge and squire in Kentucky, led a gang of highway robbers and river pirates on the Ohio River.

* Virginia M. Hernandez Covington ( born 1955 ), American lawyer and federal judge

The county was named after Henry St. George Tucker, Sr., a judge and Congressman from Williamsburg, Virginia.

* Edmund Pendleton, ( September 9, 1721 – October 23, 1803 ) was a Virginia politician, lawyer and judge, active in the American Revolutionary War.

Following the devastation to Warrenton, Virginia, during the Civil War, George Scott Shackelford moved from Warrenton to Charlottesville and later to Orange in 1881, where he was an attorney, Mayor of Orange, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the Virginia State Senate, the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, and later judge of the Ninth Virginia Judicial Circuit.

Spencer is named for Spencer Roane, an early judge on the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.

In November 2006, because he refused to testify before a federal grand jury after the court held that he had no legal basis for his refusal, he was held in civil contempt and imprisoned for his contempt of court by a Virginia district court judge.

He was adopted by a maternal uncle, Edmund Pendleton, a leading Virginia politician, lawyer and judge.

* Edmund Pendleton ( 1721 – 1803 ), American politician, lawyer, and judge, delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia

* Philip Clayton Pendleton ( 1779 – 1863 ), US federal judge in Virginia

| style =" font-size: 80 %" | Resigned October 15, 1830 after being appointed judge of US Circuit Court of the Eastern District of Virginia

In California, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington, an applicant who has not attended law school may take the bar exam after study under a judge or practicing attorney for an extended period of time.

Edmund Pendleton ( September 9, 1721 – October 23, 1803 ) was a Virginia politician, lawyer and judge, active in the American Revolutionary War.

George Wythe ( 1726 – June 8, 1806 ) was an American lawyer, a Virginia judge, and a prominent opponent of slavery.

* Charles S. Russell ( born 1926 ), judge in the U. S. state of Virginia

In the 10 years before his run, he had attended college in Virginia, clerked for a federal appeals court judge in Atlanta, worked for a firm in Washington, D. C., applied to take the bar in Virginia and Georgia, registered a car in Washington, DC and applied for a marriage license in Kentucky.

Instead, he was appointed a judge of the general court of Virginia and served for two years, resigning in 1827 to return to his seat in the House of Representatives as a Jacksonian.

Barbour turned down offers of a chancellorship and the post of U. S. Attorney General before finally resigning October 15, 1830 to accept President Jackson's appointment to be judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Sparrow-size Virginia Gibson, with sparkling blue eyes and a cheerful smile, made a suitably perky Amy, while Melisande Congdon, as the real aunt, was positively monumental in the very best Gibson Girl manner.

He shares with Mr. Morse a parody of the college anthems he once sang while his second song is whisked away from him by Virginia Martin, a girl with a remarkably expressive yip in her voice.

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.

He was appointed brigadier general of volunteers on February 3, 1862, and was assigned to duty in northern Virginia while the Army of the Potomac conducted the Peninsula Campaign.

Speakers in California, Missouri, Massachusetts and Louisiana favor the 1 handshape over the L and open handshapes, while speakers in Maryland, Washington and Virginia prefer the L and open handshapes.

An inmate sued the Virginia Department of Corrections after he was denied it while members of other religions were allowed their medallions.

He based his cast of characters on the authentic mountain-dwellers he met while hitchhiking through rural West Virginia and the Cumberland Valley as a teenager.

Some states, such as Virginia, do not provide for any class actions, while others, such as New York, limit the types of claims that may be brought as class actions.

Back in the United States, Lynch returned to Virginia, but since his parents had moved to Walnut Creek, California, he was forced to stay with his friend Tony Keeler for a while, before he decided to move to the city of Philadelphia, where, at the advice of Jack Fisk, who was already attending it, he decided to enroll at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, something he preferred far more than his previous art college in Boston, claiming that " In Philadelphia there were great and serious painters, and everybody was inspiring one another and it was a beautiful time there.

Poe spent the last few years of his life in this small cottage in the Fordham, Bronx | Bronx, New York. One evening in January 1842, Virginia showed the first signs of consumption, now known as tuberculosis, while singing and playing the piano.

The dorm room Poe is believed to have used while studying at the University of Virginia in 1826 is preserved and available for visits.

Now retired, he spent many years teaching at the University of Virginia while also being an advocate for the " back to basics " movement.

Meanwhile, significantly wetter winters are present in northwest Mexico and the southwest United States including central and southern California, while both cooler and wetter than average winters in northeast Mexico and the southeast United States ( including the Tidewater region of Virginia ) occur during the El Niño phase of the oscillation.

Rumors have persisted that he appears somewhere on the legendary album, and while Richards concedes that it is very likely he is among the chorus of singers on " Sweet Virginia ", to this day nothing has been substantiated.

* 2006 – An explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners, while leaving one miner in critical condition.

As one of the first delegates to arrive, while waiting for the convention to begin, Madison wrote what became known as the Virginia Plan.

Competition from placental mammals from the north drove sparassodonts to extinction, while didelphimorphs ( opossums ) invaded Central America, with the Virginia opossum reaching as far north as Canada.

In Atkins v. Virginia, for example, the majority cited the fact that the European Union forbid death penalty as part of their reasoning, while Chief Justice Rehnquist denounced the " Court's decision to place weight on foreign laws.

After graduation, he returned to Virginia while awaiting assignment to find his mother on her deathbed ; she died at Ravensworth on July 26, 1829.

* 2001 – Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks.

The highest courts of New Hampshire and West Virginia simply do not have an intermediate appellate court between themselves and the trial court of general jurisdiction, while the intermediate Court of Appeals of Virginia hears appeals as a matter of right only in family and administrative cases.

" He also wanted to disestablish the Anglican church in Virginia, but this was not done until 1786, while he was in France as US Minister.