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VIRGINIA, UNIVERSITY OF
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Under the Crown
Sir Francis Wyatt, Governor 1624–1626
Sir George Yeardley, Governor 1626–1627
Francis West (elected by Council) 1627–1628
John Pott (elected by Council) 1628–1629
Sir John Harvey, Governor 1629–1635
John West (elected by Council) 1635–1636
Sir John Harvey, Governor 1636–1639
Sir Francis Wyatt, Governor 1639–1641
Sir William Berkeley, Governor 1641–1644
Richard Kemp (elected by Council) 1644–1645
Sir William Berkeley, Governor 1645–1652
Under the Commonwealth
Richard Bennett(elected by General Assembly) 1652–1655
Edward Digges (elected by House of Burgesses) 1655–1657
Samuel Mathews (elected by House of Burgesses) 1657–1660
Under the Crown
Sir William Berkeley, Governor 1660–1677
Francis Morrison (or Moryson), Deputy Governor 1661–1662
Herbert Jeffreys, Lieutenant Governor 1677–1678
Sir Henry Chicheley, Deputy Governor 1678–1680
Thomas, Lord Culpeper, Governor 1680–1683
Nicholas Spencer, President of the Council 1683–1684
Francis, Lord Howard of Effingham, Lieutenant Governor 1684–1687
Nathaniel Bacon, President of the Council 1687–1690
Francis Nicholson, Lieutenant Governor 1690–1692
Sir Edmund Andros, Governor 1692–1698
Francis Nicholson, Lieutenant Governor 1698–1704
George Hamilton Douglas, Earl of Orkney, Governor-in-Chief 1704–1737
Edward Nott, Lieutenant Governor 1705–1706
Edmund Jenings, President of the Council 1706–1710
Robert Hunter, Lieutenant Governor[1] 1707
Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant Governor 1710–1722
Hugh Drysdale, Lieutenant Governor 1722–1726
Robert Carter, President of the Council 1726–1727
William Gooch, Lieutenant Governor 1727–1740
William Anne Keppel, Earl of Albemarle, Governor-in-Chief[1]  1737–1754
James Blair, President of the Council 1740–1741
Sir William Gooch, Governor 1741–1749
John Robinson, President of the Council 1749 (June to Sept.)
Thomas Lee, President of the Council 1749–1750
Lewis Burwell, President of the Council 1750–1751
Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant Governor 1751–1758
John Campbell, Earl of London, Governor General of the American Colonies[1]  1756–1763
John Blair, President of the Council 1758 (Jan. to June)
Francis Fauquier, Lieutenant Governor 1758–1768
Sir Jeffrey Amherst, Governor-in-Chief[1] 1763–1768
John Blair, President of the Council 1768 (March to Oct.)
Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Governor-in-Chief 1768–1770
William Nelson, President of the Council 1770–1771
John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, Governor-in-Chief 1771–1775
State
Patrick Henry 1776–1779
Thomas Jefferson 1779–1781
Thomas Nelson, jun. 1781
Benjamin Harrison 1781–1784
Patrick Henry 1784–1786
Edmund Randolph 1786–1788
Beverley Randolph 1788–1791
Henry Lee 1791–1794
Robert Brooke 1794–1796
James Wood,  Democratic Republican  1796–1799
James Monroe, 1799–1802
John Page, 1802–1805
William H. Cabell, 1805–1808
John Tyler, sen., 1808–1811
James Monroe, 1811
George Wm. Smith (acting), Democratic Republican 1811
Peyton Randolph (acting) 1811–1812
James Barbour, Anti-Democrat 1812–1814
Wilson Cary Nicholas, Republican 1814–1816
James Patton Preston, 1816–1819
Thomas Mann Randolph, 1819–1822
James Pleasants, jun., 1822–1825
John Tyler, State Rights Democrat 1825–1827
William Branch Giles, Democrat 1827–1830
John Floyd, Democrat 1830–1834
Littleton Waller Tazewell, Democrat 1834–1836
Wyndham Robertson (acting), Democrat 1836–1837
David Campbell, Whig 1837–1840
Thomas W. Gilmer, Whig 1840–1841
John M. Patton (acting), 1841
John Rutherford (acting), 1841–1842
John Munford Gregory (acting), Whig 1842–1843
James McDowell, 1843–1846
William Smith, Democrat 1846–1849
John Buchanan Floyd, Democrat 1849–1852
Joseph Johnson, 1852–1856
Henry Alexander Wise, 1856–1860
John Letcher, 1860–1864
William Smith, 1864–1865
Francis H. Pierpont (provisional), Republican 1865–1867
Henry Horatio Wells, (provisional), 1868–1870
Gilbert Carlton Walker, 1870–1874
James Lawson Kemper, Conservative 1874–1878
Frederick Wm. Mackey Holliday, “Debt-Paying” 1878–1882
William Ewan Cameron, Readjuster 1882–1886
Fitzhugh Lee, Democrat 1886–1890
Philip W. McKinney, Democrat 1890–1894
Charles Triplett O'Ferrall, Democrat 1894–1898
James Hoge Tyler, 1898–1902
Andrew Jackson Montague, 1902–1906
Claude Augustus Swanson, 1906–1910
William Hodges Mann, 1910

Bibliography.—For physical description see Henry Gannett, Gazetteer of Virginia (Washington, 1904), U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 232; W. B. Rogers, Geology of the Virginias (New York, 1884); N. H. Darton and M. L. Fuller in Water Supply and Irrigation Paper No. 114 (Washington, 1905) of the U.S. Geological Survey; G. T. Surface, “Physiography of Virginia,” pp. 741–53, vol. 38 (1906), Bulletin, Am. Geog. Soc., and “Geography of Virginia,” pp. 1–60, vol. 5 (1907), Bulletin, Philadelphia Geog. Soc.; T. L. Watson et all., Mineral Resources of Virginia (Lynchburg, 1907). On fisheries see the Report of the Commission of Fisheries, 1908–9 (Richmond, 1909). For administration see J. G. Pollard (ed.), Code of Virginia (2 vols., St Paul, 1904); and on finance, W. L. Royall, History of the Virginia Debt Controversy (Richmond, 1897). History.—General histories are: Robert Beverley, History of Virginia in Four Parts (Richmond, 1855); R. R. Howison, History of Virginia (2 vols., ibid., 1849); S. Kercheval, History of the Valley of Virginia (Woodstock, Va., 1850); and J. E. Cook, Virginia: a History of the People (Boston, 1900). On the earlier period see W. A. Clayton Torrence, “A Trial Bibliography of Colonial Virginia” (Richmond, 1910), in the Report of the Virginia State Librarian; L. G. Tyler (ed.), Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606–25 (New York, 1907); W. Stith, History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia (ibid., 1865); Susan M. Kingsbury (ed.), Records of the Virginia Company of London (2 vols., Washington, 1906); Alexander Brown, The First Republic in America (Boston, 1898); idem (ed.), Genesis of the United States (2 vols., ibid., 1890), J. S. Bassett, The Writings of Colonel William Byrd of Westover (New York, 1901); John Fiske, Old Virginia and her Neighbors (ibid., 1897); P. A. Bruce, Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (2 vols., New York, 1895); J. P. Kennedy and H. R. McIlwaine, Journals of the House of Burgesses, 1742–76 (Richmond, 1905–7); Charles Campbell, History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia (Philadelphia, 1859); E. I. Miller, Legislature of the Province of Virginia (New York, 1908); and, for religious and social conditions, Rt. Rev. W. Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia (ibid., 1857); and H. J. Eckenrode, “Separation of Church and State in Virginia” (Richmond, 1909) in the 5th Report of the Virginia State Librarian. For the more recent period see Chas. H. Ambler, Sectionalism in Virginia 1770–1861 (Chicago, 1910), a valuable study; P. L. Ford, Writings of Thomas Jefferson (10 vols., New York, 1892–99); W. C. Ford, Writings of George Washington (14 vols., ibid., 1889–93); W. W. Henry, Life, Correspondence and Speeches of Patrick Henry (3 vols., ibid., 1891); J. Elliott, Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia, 1861); T. R. Dew, Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature, 1831–32 (Richmond, 1832), important for a comprehension of the slavery issue; J. C. Ballagh, A History of Slavery in Virginia (Baltimore, 1902); B. B. Munford, Virginia’s Attitude toward Slavery (New York, 1909), and the Debates of the Virginia Conventions, 1776, 1829, 1850, which are very important, especially for 1829. See also R. A. Brock (ed.), Virginia Historical Collections (11 vols., Richmond, 1882–92); P. A. Bruce and W. G. Stanard, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (ibid., 1893 sqq.); W. W, Hening, The Statutes at Large (13 vols, ibid., 1819–23); and W. P. Palmer, Calendar of Virginia State Papers (11 vols., ibid., 1874).

VIRGINIA, UNIVERSITY OF, a state institution for higher education, situated at Charlottesville among the foot-hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Its buildings, arranged around

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