House of Delegates can refer to:

Delegates to each level of convention are initially bound to support their chosen candidate but can later switch in a process very similar to what goes on at the precinct level ; however, as major shifts in delegate support are rare, the media declares the candidate with the most delegates on the precinct caucus night the winner, and relatively little attention is paid to the later caucuses.

However, in 1786, with the support of William Armistead ( then a member of the House of Delegates ) and carrying a 1784 testimonial of his service from the Marquis de Lafayette, James petitioned the Virginia Assembly for his freedom ( The facsimile of the letter of commendation can be viewed on the Lafayette College website ,< ref >

Delegates could and did change their votes based on further developments in the race ; for instance, in 2004 the delegates pledged to Dick Gephardt, who left the race after the precinct caucuses, chose a different candidate to support at the county, district, and state level.

Delegates chose ( in a " retain or delete " vote process ) to eliminate about three quarters of the specific planks in the party's platform and to essentially overturn the Dallas Accord by inserting statements in the platform recognizing the legitimacy of government's role in protecting rights.

The AAPA Board of Directors, being required to uphold the policies of the AAPA decided by the House of Delegates, one of which being that " Physician Assistant " is the official title of the profession, chose not to independently pursue a study of the title change.

Instead, the group chose George Price, a conservative member of the Maryland House of Delegates from Baltimore County.

Boschert subsequently chose to retire from the state House of Delegates and run for the Republican nomination for County Executive in 2006.

Martin was subsequently elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, until he finally chose to retire because of advanced age.

He was unseated by County Councilman Guy Guzzone, who had considered a race for County Executive, but chose to run for the House of Delegates, as that post would allow Mr. Guzzone to spend more time with his family.

Delegates used two streams of intellectual tradition, and any one delegate could be found using both or a mixture depending on the subject under discussion, foreign affairs or the economy, national government or federal relationships among the states.

** Delegates attending an American Legion convention at The Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, begin falling ill with a form of pneumonia: this will eventually be recognised as the first outbreak of Legionnaires ' disease and will end in the deaths of 29 attendees.

Impatient of the endless committees that would no doubt attend the appointment of a successor to Price, Jowett extracted what could be interpreted as permission from the Delegates and headhunted Philip Lyttelton Gell, a former student acolyte of his, to be the next Secretary to the Delegates.

Such musical publishing enterprises, however, were rare: " In nineteenth-century Oxford the idea that music might in any sense be educational would not have been entertained ", and few of the Delegates or former Publishers were themselves musical or had extensive music backgrounds.

Subsequently, the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association voted to submit to Congress a bill to remove the limit on the amount of whiskey that could be prescribed and questioning the ability of a legislature to determine the therapeutic value of any substance.

Delegates at the conference called for job cuts and bed closures, part of planned NHS reforms aimed at improving the effectiveness of the service, to be halted, predicting that the number of posts lost could reach 13, 000, and said a work to rule was possible.

Individuals are required to agree with the Aims and Principles as they are regarded to be a basic representation of Anarchist-Communist politics within a revolutionary organisation, however they are subject to edition, a decision taken by vote at the National Delegates ' Conference.

Delegates also have an opportunity to form political parties and to campaign to be elected to one of the five youth officer positions.

In the Maryland General Assembly, he served as Chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland and was the first African American in Maryland history to be named Speaker pro Tempore, the second highest position in the House of Delegates.

Under the Constitution of Virginia, Senators and Delegates must be 21 years of age at the time of the election, residents of the district they represent, and qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly.

Delegates from some Arab countries had claimed that Mansour's initiative would be interpreted as an official UN condemnation of Hamas, and would gain Israel international legitimacy for cutting electricity and fuel supplies to Gaza.

All reports and other matters pertaining to the Congress Library have to be approved by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates.

Delegates hoped that this would be a historic " final act ," ending more than four years of war and setting up a government of national unity.

In 1995 Drake became the second Republican to be elected from the Norfolk area to the Virginia House of Delegates since Reconstruction.

As of January 2007, recent studies and proposed legislation in the Virginia General Assembly supported by many local members in both the State Senate and the House of Delegates may require that tolls on existing facilities ( which are currently toll-free ) be collected in the future to help pay for the enormous costs associated with a future so-called " third crossing " ( in actuality, the fourth ) and other regional transportation needs.

Delegates were not pledged or required to vote for certain candidates, so it was difficult to know what the initial count would be for any candidate.

Dr. Harriet B. Jones ( 1856 – 1943 ) was the first woman to be licensed as a physician in West Virginia in 1885 and the first woman to be elected to its House of Delegates in 1924.

There was to be a bicameral legislature made up of a Senate and a House of Delegates.

Delegates opposed to slavery were forced to yield in their demands that slavery practiced within the confines of the new nation be completely outlawed.

Sittings by these Commissioners became known as the " High Court of Delegates " by the time of the 1832 Act.

Also included are Delegates from territories and the District of Columbia and Resident Commissioners from thePhilippines and Puerto Rico.

The Honorable Dwight C. Jones, a prominent Baptist pastor and former Chairman of the Richmond School Board and Member of the Virginia House of Delegates serves as Mayor of the City of Richmond.

Delegates from various troupes throughout America, Canada and Europe congregate at IDKE to perform and engage in discussion and debate at a series of workshops organized by the host city under the guidance of the IDKE Board.

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.

The NA World Service Conference ( WSC ) is a bi-annual service meeting made up of the Regional Delegates of the seated Regions of the world and the members of the NA World Board.

Elections to the Board, composed of between 15 and 19 members, are held annually by another larger volunteer body, Easter Seals National House of Delegates.

The ABA is governed by the Office of the President ; the House of Delegates, which acts as the organization's primary body for adopting new policies and recommendations as part of the association's official position ; and the Board of Governors.

The AAPA Board and the AAPA House of Delegates has considered this issue on multiple occasions over the past two decades and has concluded that the risks of change outweigh the potential benefits, and would detract from other, higher priorities issues for the profession.

Each council is assigned to study issues relating to its special area of interest and to make recommendations on those matters to the Board of Trustees and the House of Delegates.

* 1913: NDA adopts a new constitution and bylaws, establishing the House of Delegates and Board of Trustees.

The Board of Delegates elects the Grand Chapter officers and may amend the by-laws and act as the legislative body of the Grand Chapter.

He also served in the American Bar Association House of Delegates, on the Board of Editors of the ABA Journal, and as Director of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association.

A Board of Delegates composed of nine at-large members was elected for four-year terms.

In 1860 the executive committee of the Board of Delegates of American Israelites, of which Myer S. Isaacs was secretary, took steps to continue the agitation in America.

In 1867 Myer S. Isaacs, on behalf of the Board of Delegates of American Israelites, endeavored unsuccessfully to have the government take some steps to alleviate the condition of the Jews in Servia.

In 1863 atrocities perpetrated upon the Jews of Morocco led the Board of Delegates to ask the intervention of the United States.

In 1878 the Board of Delegates renewed its endeavors to have the government use its good offices in Morocco, and the consul at Tangier, F. A. Matthews, took earnest steps to alleviate the condition of the Jews whenever the opportunity arose during this and succeeding years.

Adolph Sanger, on behalf of the Board of Delegates, in 1880 sent out an agent, L. A. Cohen, to Morocco to report on conditions there.

Romanian conditions, which have so vitally interested the United States, first had attention drawn to them by the Board of Delegates in June 1867, when the good offices of the United States in behalf of the persecuted Jews of Romania were requested.

Delegates to the Congress of Delegates elect the Board, which in turn appoints commission and committee members.

Statewide, the Virginia House of Delegates ( specifically the Privileges and Elections Committee ) effectively " threatened " the Board of Visitors ' appointees if they refused to fire Nichol over the surrounding controversies during his tenure, culminating with the Sex Workers ' Art Show.

NSC is governed by a Board of Directors and a Board of Delegates.