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Born on July 16, 1748, to the former Mary Anne Bertrand and her husband Col. Leroy Griffin in Farnham Parish (now Farnham), then in Lancaster County (which became part of Richmond County in his lifetime), Colony of Virginia, British America, [2] [3] He was a descendant of an Englishman named Thomas Griffin, who settled to the Virginia Colony in the early 1600s, and received land grants ...
Little-known facts about US presidents will leave you in disbelief. Marah Alindogan. November 23, 2016 at 12:30 PM.
In honor of Presidents Day, which lands on Monday, Feb. 17 this year, we've gathered a collection of presidential trivia facts to give your executive knowledge a run for its money.
The 41st president of the United States, former director of the CIA, and vice president for eight years under Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush died in 2018 at the age of 94. Related: 21 Crazy Facts ...
The memorial, bordering the Blue Ridge Mountains in southwestern Virginia, is an area of over 50 acres (200,000 m 2) that overlooks the town of Bedford. It officially opened on June 6, 2001, with 15,000 people present, including President George W. Bush. [2] About 60,000 people have visited the memorial each year.
Winsome Earle-Sears (born March 11, 1964) is an American politician and Marine Corps veteran serving since 2022 as the 42nd lieutenant governor of Virginia.A member of the Republican Party, Earle-Sears served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2002 to 2004.
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. Virginia currently functions under the 1971 Constitution of Virginia. It is Virginia's seventh constitution. Under the Constitution, the government is ...
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