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The colonia Virginia Capitol in Williamsburg, where the Fifth Virginia Convention met in 1776 On June 7, Richard Henry Lee , one of Virginia's delegates to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia , carried out the instructions to propose independence in the language the convention had commanded him to use: that "these colonies are, and ...
Raleigh Tavern, Colonial Williamsburg First Virginia Convention met here, 1774. The First Convention was organized after Lord Dunmore, the colony's royal governor, dissolved the House of Burgesses when that body called for a day of prayer as a show of solidarity with Boston, Massachusetts, when the British government closed the harbor under the Boston Port Act.
Ohio's 5th congressional district (2012) Party Candidate Votes % Republican: Bob Latta (incumbent) 201,514 : 57.3 : Democratic: Angela Zimmann 137,806 39.2 Libertarian: Eric Eberly 12,558 3.5 Total votes 351,878 : 100.0 : Republican hold
The Ohio General Assembly had 30 days to draw a new map, but declined to do so, passing the buck to the same 7-member political Ohio Redistricting Commission in charge of Ohio's contentious legislative redistricting. [11] On March 2, 2022, the Ohio Redistricting Commission adopted a second Congressional map along party lines.
Current U.S. representatives from Ohio District Member (Residence) [1] Party Incumbent since CPVI (2022) [2] District map 1st: Greg Landsman : Democratic January 3, 2023 D+2: 2nd: Dave Taylor : Republican January 3, 2025 R+25: 3rd: Joyce Beatty : Democratic January 3, 2013 D+20: 4th: Jim Jordan : Republican January 3, 2007 R+20: 5th: Bob Latta
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. Within the district are the cities of Charlottesville, Danville, and Lynchburg. The district's first representative ...
The first election for Virginia's 5th congressional district took place on February 2, 1789, for a two-year term to commence on March 4 of that year. In a race that turned on the candidates' positions on the need for amendments (the Bill of Rights) to the recently ratified U.S. Constitution, James Madison defeated James Monroe for a place in the House of Representatives of the First Congress.
The Ohio Country, showing present-day U.S. state boundaries. The Ohio Company, formally known as the Ohio Company of Virginia, was a land speculation company organized for the settlement by Virginians of the Ohio Country (approximately the present U.S. state of Ohio) and to trade with the Native Americans.