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Edmund Pendleton, the presiding officer of the Fifth Virginia Convention. The Fifth Virginia Convention was a meeting of the Patriot legislature of Virginia held in Williamsburg from May 6 to July 5, 1776. This Convention declared Virginia an independent state and produced its first constitution and the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
Delegates selected a presiding officer, and they elected delegates to the Continental Congress. At the convention, Patrick Henry —a delegate from Hanover County —offered amendments to raise a militia independent of royal authority in terms that explicitly recognized that war with the British Empire was inevitable, sparking the opposition of ...
The presiding officer presides over the Parliament's debates, determining which members may speak, and maintains order during debate. [4] The presiding officer is expected to be strictly non-partisan, with some similarities in this respect to the tradition of the Speaker of the House of Commons.
The Convention met from June 2–27, 1788, in the wooden "Old Capitol" building at Richmond VA, and elected Edmund Pendleton its presiding officer. [22] The Virginia Ratifying Convention narrowly approved joining the proposed United States under a constitution of supreme national law as authorized by "We, the people" of the United States.
Presiding officer The Virginia Ratifying Convention (also historically referred to as the " Virginia Federal Convention ") was a convention of 168 delegates from Virginia who met in 1788 to ratify or reject the United States Constitution , which had been drafted at the Philadelphia Convention the previous year.
Chandler Holder (Chad) Jones, SSC (born April 20, 1971) is an American Continuing Anglican bishop. He is the Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Province of America (APA).. He is a native of Elkin in Surry County, North Carolina, and a graduate of Emory and Henry College (BA) and Duke University Divinity School (MDiv).
The speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution.
The Senate often votes by voice vote. The presiding officer puts the question, and members respond either "Yea/Aye" (in favor of the motion) or "Nay" (against the motion). The presiding officer then announces the result of the voice vote. A senator, however, may challenge the presiding officer's assessment and request a recorded vote.