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Robert Sidney Burruss Jr. (November 9, 1914 – June 21, 1978) was a state Senator and businessman from Lynchburg, Virginia. [1] In 1963 he became the first Republican elected to represent the area since Congressional Reconstruction .
Mosby Garland Perrow Jr. (born March 5, 1909 – May 31, 1973) was a Virginia lawyer and state senator representing Lynchburg, Virginia. [1] A champion of Virginia's public schools, Perrow became a key figure in Virginia's abandonment of "Massive Resistance" to public school desegregation, including by chairing a joint legislative committee colloquially known as the Perrow Commission.
Thomas Glass attended local schools (including E.C. Glass High School in Lynchburg), then the Virginia Military Institute and Lynchburg College before graduating from Washington and Lee University with B.A. in journalism. [2] During the Korean War, Glass served in the U.S. Air Force, as a first lieutenant with the 18th Fighter Bomber Wing.
Virgil Alexander Wood was born in Charlottesville, Virginia on April 6, 1931. [1] In 1948 he interviewed his grandfather Jesse, who had been born into slavery and recalled witnessing the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation by a Union soldier.
He and his wife moved back to the Lynchburg area following graduation from college and took a job in 1968 at the Jack Daniel's Distillery there. [3] He learned the various details of the production process and was named as the company's sixth master distiller in 1988, where he was responsible for supervising the "milling, yeasting, fermenting and distilling" involved in making the whiskey ...
The $499,713 grant to Virginia University of Lynchburg was for preservation of Humbles Hall. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In 2020, the Virginia University of Lynchburg School of Religion, located in Humbles Hall, was renamed The Leonard N. Smith School of Religion.
The home of Lem Motlow (1869–1947) at the Jack Daniel's Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee, United States. Motlow, a nephew of Daniel, ran the distillery from 1911 until his death. The house was built circa 1870, and is now used by the distillery for office space.
Frank Boggs Wright Jr. (18 November 1912 – 21 February 2008) was an American commercial artist whose career extended from the mid-1930s to the late 1990s. A native of Madison Heights, Virginia, he was perhaps best known for designing the ChapStick logo (circa 1936).