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Governor and Virginia
* 1609 – Richard Bennett, English Governor of the Colony of Virginia ( d. 1675 )
* 1587 – Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.
But he was soon back at sea and attracted the attention of Alexander Spotswood, the Governor of Virginia.
* 1954 – Mark Warner, American politician, United States Senator from Virginia and 69th Governor of Virginia
* 1811 – A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.
Washington was appointed by Governor Dinwiddie as one of the four district adjutants in February 1753, with the rank of major in the Virginia militia.
Governor Dinwiddie rewarded Washington in 1755 with a commission as " Colonel of the Virginia Regiment and Commander in Chief of all forces now raised in the defense of His Majesty's Colony " and gave him the task of defending Virginia's frontier.
Governor Norborne Berkeley finally fulfilled Dinwiddie's promise in 1769 – 1770, with Washington subsequently receiving title to near where the Kanawha River flows into the Ohio River, in what is now western West Virginia.
* Chuck Robb, former Governor of Virginia and former U. S. Senator
* 1931 – L. Douglas Wilder, American politician, 66th Governor of Virginia
He gained experience as an executive as the Governor of Virginia and rose to national prominence as a diplomat in France, when he helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
When Monroe was Governor of Virginia in 1800, hundreds of slaves from Virginia planned to kidnap him, take Richmond, and negotiate for their freedom.
* 1866 – William G. Conley, American politician and 18th Governor of West Virginia ( d. 1940 )
Future Virginia Governor and U. S. Secretary of War James Barbour concluded that " unconstitutional " included " void, and of no force or effect ", and that Madison's textual change did not affect the meaning.
* 1736 – Patrick Henry, American attorney, planter, and politician, 1st & 6th Governor of Virginia ( d. 1799 )
* 1952 – George Felix Allen, American politician, 67th Governor of Virginia
* 1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.
* His niece Lucy Grymes married Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson Jr.
Lee was born at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the son of Major General Henry Lee III ( Light Horse Harry ) ( 1756 – 1818 ), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter ( 1773 – 1829 ).
At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia ( 1779 – 1781 ).
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