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2. Government of Virginia - Wikipedia

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   The government of Virginia combines the executive, legislative and judicial branches of authority in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The current governor of Virginia is Glenn Youngkin . The State Capitol building in Richmond was designed by Thomas Jefferson , and the cornerstone was laid by Governor Patrick Henry in 1785 .

3. Mecklenburg County, Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Mecklenburg County operates under what is commonly referred as the "traditional form" of county government under the Virginia Constitution, under which voters elect five countywide "constitutional officers": Clerk of Circuit Court - Michelle Gordon; Commonwealth's Attorney - Allen Nash; Commissioner of Revenue - Lisa Carlton Wagstaff

4. List of cities and counties in Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Parts of Surry and Isle of Wight counties were added in 1732 (when the county's government was established.) Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, from which the current line of British monarchs hailed 15,749: 566 sq mi (1,466 km 2) Buchanan County: 027: Grundy: 1858: From Russell and Tazewell counties: James Buchanan, fifteenth U.S. President 19,087: ...

5. Lynchburg, Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Lynchburg was a deadly place for the worship of God'." That referred to the lack of churches, which was corrected the following year. Itinerant Methodist Francis Asbury visited the town; Methodists built its first church in 1805. Lynchburg hosted the last Virginia Methodist Conference that bishop Asbury attended (February 20, 1815). [11]

6. Virginia's 5th congressional district - Wikipedia

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   Within the district are the cities of Charlottesville, Danville, and Lynchburg. The district's first representative in Congress was James Madison, who defeated James Monroe in the district's first congressional election. Madison and Monroe would go on to serve as the 4th and 5th Presidents of the United States.

7. Campbell County, Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Lynchburg was established in Campbell County in 1786, incorporated as a town in 1805, and separated from Campbell County when it became an independent city in 1852. Lynchburg has annexed additional land from Bedford County and Campbell County through the years, most recently in 1976.