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The Virginia Governor's Cabinet is a body of the most senior appointed officers of the executive branch of the Government of Virginia. The Cabinet is responsible for advising the Governor of Virginia. Cabinet officers are nominated by the governor and then presented to the Virginia General Assembly for confirmation. Once confirmed, all members ...
This is a list of U.S. statewide elected executive officials.These state constitutional officers have their duties and qualifications mandated in state constitutions. This list does not include those elected to serve in non-executive branches of government, such as justices or clerks of the state supreme courts or at-large members of the state legislatures.
The statewide elected officials are governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general. All three officers are separately elected four-year terms in years following presidential elections (1997, 2001, 2005, etc.) and take office in January of the following year. Virginia is one of only five states that elects its state
Code of Virginia regarding the Duties of the Secretary of the Commonwealth; Archival Records. A Guide to the Records of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1996–2006 at The Library of Virginia; Archived Web Site of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 2006–2010 part of Governor Timothy Kaine Administration Collection, 2006–2010 at Virginia ...
Virginia state lawmakers are required to live in the district they represent, as well as in any district they might be seeking to represent. If they move out of their district, the state ...
In 1870, Virginia was readmitted to the federal union and, from then on, the officers were chosen by popular election. [2] That year, the state adopted a new constitution which gave the lieutenant governor the power to cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate. [3] Douglas Wilder, sworn-in in 1986, was Virginia's first black lieutenant governor. [4]
Virginia is one of just a handful of states that holds major elections in off years, so while special elections to replace state Sens. John McGuire, R-Goochland, and Suhas Subramanyam, D-Loudoun ...
On inauguration day, the governor-elect takes the following oath of office: "I (first_middle_last names), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties incumbent upon me as Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, according to the ...