Virginia House of Burgesses
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The Virginia colony's House of Burgesses, Burgesses means citizens, was the first elected legislative assembly in North America. The assembly governed the new colony with laws that would have to be approved by the London Company. Its first statute regulated the price of tobacco to be sold for a minimum of three shillings per pound. Other laws passed in its first session prohibited gambling, drunkenness and idleness. They also passed a measure that required the colonist to keep the Sabbath. - AsNotedIn
Notable Position | Person | From | To |
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Member for New Kent County | Col John West | 1685 | |
Member | Carter Burwell | 1742 | 1755 |
Representative for Isle of Wight County | Robert Burwell | 1752 | 1758 |
Member | Armistead Burwell (Merchant) | 1753 | 1754 |
Member | Lewis Burwell II | 1698 | |
Represents James City County | Lewis Burwell of Kingsmill | 1742 | 1743 |
Member | John Chew (Chewe) IV | ||
Member | Gideon Macon | 1693 | 1693 |
Member | Gideon Macon | 1696 | 1702 |
Member for King William County | Col Nathaniel West | 1703 | 1705 |
Member | John Donelson | 1769 | 1774 |
Member | Edward Lloyd I | 1644 | 1649 |
Member | John Custis II | 1676 | |
Representative of Loudoun County | Francis Lightfoot Lee | 1758 | 1769 |
Representative of Richmond County | Francis Lightfoot Lee | 1769 | |
Member | Col Ralph Wormeley | 1674 | |
Representative in 1691, 1692 and 1704 | William Churchill I | 1691 | 1704 |
Fauquier County Representative | Col Thomas Marshall (Patriot) | 1773 | |
Fauquier County Representative | James Markham Marshall | 1775 | |
Representative from Albemarle County | Thomas Jefferson | 1769 | 1776 |
Representative from Stafford | Lt Colonel George Mason | 1715 | 1726 |
Representative from Stafford | Thomson Mason | 1766 | 1775 |
Member | Richard Randolph of Curles | 1727 | 1749 |
Member | Archibald Cary | 1756 | 1776 |
Burgess | Richard Lee II | 1698 | |
Burgess | Richard Lee I | 1647 | 1651 |
Member | Thomas Nelson Jr | 1774 | |
Member | Richard Henry Lee | 1758 | |
Member | Thomas Randolph | ||
Member | Patrick Henry | 1765 | |
Member | George Mason | 1759 | |
Member | Henry Lee II | 1758 | |
Member | Benjamin Harrison IV | 1736 | |
Member | Col Thomas Lightfoot Lee | 1723 | |
Member | Col Robert Bolling | 1702 | |
Member | William Fitzhugh | 1772 | 1775 |
Member | James Mercer | 1765 | |
Member | Augustine Washington II | 1754 | 1758 |
Member | Isaac Zane | 1773 |