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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.
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.
Presiding Officer of the Tobago House of Assembly – Anne Mitchell-Gift (Tobago Council of the People's National Movement) – 2001–2013 [234] Acting Prime Minister – Vernella Alleyne-Toppin (Tobago Organisation of the People) – 2010 [235]
Dr. Archibald Blair died in Williamsburg in March 1733, before the 1734 session of the House of Burgesses began its business, and was succeeded in that body by his son John, who not only rose to a seat on the Governor's Council after his uncle's death, but served as its presiding officer (hence family members sometimes distinguished him as ...
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.
Presiding Officer: Liberal Democrats: David Steel was elected as the Presiding Officer and had to take voluntary suspension from his party. 21 December 1999 Ayr: Labour: Ian Welsh resigned from Parliament, citing family reasons. [1] 16 March 2000 Ayr: Conservative: John Scott won the Ayr by-election. [2] 11 October 2000 Glasgow Anniesland ...
The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. [1] Although the convention was intended to revise the league of states and first system of government under the Articles of Confederation, [2] the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison of Virginia and Alexander Hamilton of New York, was to create a new ...
The first state to ratify was Virginia on December 16, 1777; 12 states had ratified the Articles by February 1779, 14 months into the process. [11] The lone holdout, Maryland, refused to go along until the landed states, especially Virginia, had indicated they were prepared to cede their claims west of the Ohio River to the Union. [12]