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Admitted to the bar in 1805, Leigh practiced law and served as a judge for the Halifax County Court. He represented Halifax, Charlotte, and Prince Edward Counties in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. After voters adopted the new constitution, the General Assembly appointed Leigh a judge of the Virginia General Court (in 1831 ...
Born at "Giant Poplars" in Houston, Halifax County, Virginia to the former Hallie Bailey Craddock, and her husband, William P. Barksdale Sr. His paternal grandfather, Elisha Barksdale] (1812–1887), had represented Halifax County in the Virginia House of Delegates for one term during the final years of the Civil War (1863-5), after purchasing the Union Iron Works with partners Jonathan B ...
William Weldon "Ted" Bennett, Jr. (born December 24, 1940, in Halifax, Virginia) is an American politician. A Democrat , he served in the Virginia House of Delegates 1990–2002. On March 13, 2009, he announced that he was running for reelection to his old seat in the 60th district after his Republican successor, Clarke Hogan , announced his ...
Born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, Flournoy was educated at Hampden-Sydney College. He engaged as a private teacher and subsequently studied law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Halifax, Virginia, in 1834. Flournoy was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1849).
County King's attorneys in Virginia (3 P) J. Virginia state court judges (3 C, 69 P) Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Virginia (4 P)
Paul Carrington (March 16, 1733 – June 23, 1818) was a Virginia planter, lawyer, judge and politician. He served in the House of Burgesses after the creation of Charlotte County and through the Virginia Revolutionary Conventions, then represented Charlotte County, as well as neighboring Halifax and Prince Edward Counties in the Virginia Senate after the conflict before legislators elected ...
Howard Anderson was born in Halifax County, Virginia to Howard Putnam Anderson and the former Nancy Elizabeth Palmer. He and his brother attended the local public schools. Anderson then attended the College of William and Mary, graduating in 1940. He then held various sales jobs during the next two years, and married his wife Mildred Webb in 1941.
Robert Williams (circa 1740 – circa 1793) was an American lawyer, patriot, planter and politician in Virginia and North Carolina, who served in the fifth Virginia Revolutionary Convention, first meeting of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1776 and in 1788 the Virginia Ratifying Convention, all representing Pittsylvania County, as well as led Pittsylvania's militia during the American ...