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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 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 declared their independence on July 4, 1776.
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.
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.
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 ...
Seven Virginia cities are now considered extinct. These should not be confused with many small developments in the 17th century that were called "cities," but in modern terminology were towns. Virginia laws enacted late in the 20th century enabled smaller independent cities to revert (or convert) to town status, which included rejoining a county.
Party Incumbent since CPVI (2022) [2] District map 1st: Rob Wittman : Republican December 11, 2007 R+6: 2nd: Jen Kiggans (Virginia Beach) Republican January 3, 2023 R+2: 3rd: Bobby Scott (Newport News) Democratic January 3, 1993 D+17: 4th: Jennifer McClellan : Democratic March 7, 2023 D+16: 5th: John McGuire : Republican January 3, 2025 R+7: 6th
The Augusta Declaration, or the Memorial of Augusta County Committee, May 10, 1776, was a statement presented to the Fifth Virginia Convention in Williamsburg, Virginia on May 10, 1776. The Declaration announced the necessity of the Thirteen Colonies to form a permanent and independent union of states and national government separate from Great ...