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The Fifth Virginia Convention was a meeting of the Patriot legislature of Virginia held in Williamsburg from May 6 to July 5, 1776. This Convention declared Virginia an independent state and produced its first constitution and the Virginia Declaration of Rights .
The Virginia State Constitution: A Reference Guide. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-935574-7. Freehling, William; Simpson, Craig M., eds. (2010). Showdown in Virginia: the 1861 Convention and the Fate of the Union. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-2964-4. Grigsby, Hugh Blair (1855). The Virginia Convention of 1776. Da Capo ...
Virginia's 5th congressional district from January 3, 2023. Virginia's fifth congressional district is a United States congressional district in the commonwealth of Virginia. The 5th district includes the majority of Southside Virginia, though it stretches as far as the Richmond suburbs.
For most of this decade, however, Virginian representatives were not seated in Congress because of Virginia's secession in the Civil War. After January 26, 1870, Virginia was allowed to seat members. The state convention called for a ninth seat, at-large, but the House rejected the credentials of its claimant, Joseph Segar. [5]
The following is a list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the Commonwealth of Virginia ordered by District number. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Virginia. The list of names ...
That state senate district includes Appomattox, Powhatan, Goochland, Fluvanna and Buckingham counties, to name a few of the localities that make up the 5 th Congressional District as well ...
List of members of the United States House delegation from Virginia, their terms, their district boundaries, and the district political ratings according to the CPVI. For the 118th Congress, the state's delegation has a total of 11 members, with 6 Democrats and 5 Republicans.
The 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia were held on November 5, 2024, to elect the U.S. representatives from the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia, one from each of the state's eleven congressional districts.