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

The boycott by Virginia delegates of the March 12 caucus removed the chances of Monroe's opponents, and he received the caucus nomination four days later.

The delegates which included George Washington, then a colonel of the Virginia volunteers, Patrick Henry, and John Adams, were elected by their respective colonial assemblies.

Garfield eloquently defended dissenting West Virginia delegates in his speech against Sen. Conkling's convention rule that stated all state delegates must vote unanimously for only one candidate.

Only 40 delegates attended, with few or no delegates from the large states of Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Massachusetts, and New Jersey.

The Virginia General Assembly saw the King as a noble man, but many other Continental delegates disagreed.

The Second Virginia Convention had elected delegates to the Continental Congress.

Also, in 1981, the Moral Majority mobilized delegates to the Virginia Republican state nominating convention in order to support Guy Farley, an evangelical candidate for lieutenant governor.

New Hampshire declined to send delegates, and North Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia were not represented because their governors did not call their legislatures into session, thus preventing the selection of delegates.

Pendleton attended the First Continental Congress alongside George Washington and Patrick Henry as Virginia's delegates and he led the conventions wherein Virginia declared independence and adopted the U. S. Constitution.

Pendleton served as President of the Virginia Committee of Safety from August 16, 1775 to July 5, 1776 ( effectively serving as governor of the colony ) and as President of the Virginia Convention which authorized Virginia's delegates to propose a resolution to move for the break from Britain and creation of the Declaration of Independence.

Randolph was selected as one of eleven delegates to represent Virginia at the Continental Congress in 1779, and served as a delegate through 1782.

The Virginia Plan also proposed two houses, where in both of them delegates were chosen based on state population.

The Virginia Plan ( also known as the Randolph Plan, after its sponsor, or the Large-State Plan ) was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch.

The South Carolina extremist Robert Barnwell Rhett hoped that the lower South would completely break with the Northern Democrats and attend a separate convention at Richmond, Virginia, but lower South delegates gave the national Democrats one last chance at unification by going to the convention at Baltimore, Maryland before the split became permanent.

The Second Wheeling Convention opened on June 11 with more than 100 delegates from 32 western counties representing nearly one-third of Virginia ’ s total voting population.

The Annapolis Convention was a meeting in 1786 at Annapolis, Maryland, of 12 delegates from five states ( New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia ) that unanimously called for a constitutional convention.

Decided on " Super Tuesday III " were delegates from five states: South Dakota, New Mexico, West Virginia, California and New Jersey.

Many delegates also felt that the Convention did not have the authority to completely scrap the Articles of Confederation, as the Virginia Plan would have.

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

Poe is believed to have lived in the home at the age of 23 when he first lived with Maria Clemm and Virginia ( as well as his grandmother and possibly his brother William Henry Leonard Poe ).

Although Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered four days earlier, Booth believed the war was not yet over because Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's army was still fighting the Union Army.

John Gadsby Chapman depicts Pocahontas, wearing white, being baptized Rebecca by Anglican minister Alexander Whiteaker in Jamestown, Virginia ; this event is believed to have taken place in 1613 or 1614.

The book is Jefferson's argument about what constitutes a good society, which he believed was incarnated by Virginia.

* Triple Crossing, Richmond, Virginia, believed to be the only place in North America where three Class I railroads cross

The Algonquian language is believed to have originated in the western plateau of Idaho or the plains of Montana and moved eastward, eventually extending all the way from Hudson Bay to what is today Nova Scotia in the east and as far south as the Tidewater region of Virginia.

Heinlein suffered from life-threatening peritonitis while working on this novel, and it is generally believed that his wife Virginia handled much of the editing.

Benjamin Harrison IV built on the estate what is believed to be the oldest three-story brick mansion in Virginia and is the ancestral home to two Presidents of the United States: William Henry Harrison, his grandson, and Benjamin Harrison his great-great-grandson.

His ancestors had been in America for quite some time and his roots are believed to reach to the colonization of Jamestown, Virginia ( 1607 ) and the voyage of the Mayflower ( 1620 ).

John Lederer, a German physician and explorer employed by Sir William Berkeley, colonial governor of Virginia, is believed to be the first European to set foot in present-day Mineral County.

The Henrico-Glebe house at Varina was the location where Reverend Dr. James Blair, rector of Henrico Parish, is believed to have drawn up the plans for a new school, long a goal of the colonists of Virginia.

The flagship of the Virginia Company, the Sea Venture is believed to have been built there in 1608.

Later works include Laurence Sterne's eighteenth-century psychological novel Tristam Shandy, while in the nineteenth-century it has been suggested that Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Tell-Tale Heart " foreshadows this literary technique .< ref >< http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 1785800 / The-Tell-Tale-Heart >.</ ref > Because of his renunciation of chronology in favor of free association, Édouard Dujardin's Les Lauriers Sont Coupés ( 1887 ) is also an important precursor to the stream of consciousness narratives of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and Joyce is believed to have known this work.

It is widely believed that Turner had left his fortune there before he was mistakenly shot by Union agents outside of Richmond, Virginia in 1864.

After years of negotiations, at least one boatload of Swiss did sail from Europe but they were shipwrecked in a December gale off the coast of Virginia and none of the few survivors are believed to have reached Eden.

What Kennedy learned here during his campaign for the 1960 West Virginia primary was believed to be the basis of the aid brought to the Appalachian region by the Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson administrations.

Cornwallis had not received permission to abandon the Carolinas from his superior, Henry Clinton, but he believed that Virginia would be easier to conquer, feeling that it favored an invading army.

It is believed that he fought in the Second Battle of Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia.

" In a motion filed on March 4, 2009, prosecutors in Virginia acknowledged that when Al-Arian took the plea deal in early 2006, prosecutors in Tampa believed that it exempted him from testifying in other cases.

The Warwick River, Warwick Towne, Warwick River Shire, and Warwick County, Virginia are all believed named for him, as are Warwick, Rhode Island and Warwick Parish in Bermuda ( alias The Somers Isles ).

* Eric C. Wilson, one of the Norfolk Four, a group of men who are believed to be wrongfully convicted in a rape / murder in Norfolk, Virginia

In the southern Atlantic coastal plain, the bird breeds in South Carolina near Charlestown, though it is believed to have once bred as far north as Virginia and south into Georgia.

William Washington ( not to be confused with William Augustine Washington of Westmoreland County, Virginia ) was raised with a Southern planter upbringing and believed in the values of being a gentleman.