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On June 29, the convention approved the first Constitution of Virginia. The convention selected Patrick Henry as the first governor of the new Commonwealth of Virginia, and Henry was inaugurated as governor on June 29, 1776, allowing Virginia to establish a functioning republican constitution a few days before the Second Continental Congress ...
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.
In 2011, the Virginia College and University Redistricting Competition was organized by professors Michael McDonald of George Mason University and Quentin Kidd of Christopher Newport University. About 150 students on sixteen teams from thirteen schools submitted plans for legislative and U.S. congressional districts.
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.
In the solidly Republican 5th District, the GOP primary winner is expected to win the Congressional seat. The numbers leading up to the primary “He has, in effect, campaigned and legislated for ...
Virginia's Eastern Shore is also located within the district. The incumbent is Republican Jen Kiggans , who flipped the district and was elected to a first term with 52% of the vote in 2022. [ 2 ] she won re-election defeated Democrat Missy Cotter Smasal by a vote of 201,023 (51%) to 184,174 (47%).
The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district ...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Trump-backed Virginia state Sen. John McGuire defeats US Rep. Bob Good in recount of 5th Congressional District primary.