Burgesses and Delegates
The following is a comprehensive record of individual House members who have represented districts or localities throughout Virginia since 1619*.
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House Members
First / Middle Name | Last Name / Suffix | Member From | Member To | Locality | Committees |
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Samuel C. | Anderson | 1842 | 1847 | Prince Edward | Schools and Colleges (Chair) Privileges and Elections |
St. Clair | Ballard | 1840 | 1847 | Logan | Agriculture and Manufactures |
Thomas | Bambrick | 1846 | 1848 | Brooke | Schools and Colleges |
Robert A. | Banks | 1839 | 1847 | Madison | Propositions and Grievances (Chair) Militia Laws |
Naason | Bare | 1846 | 1853 | Rockingham | Propositions and Grievances |
Christopher J. | Beirne | 1846 | 1851 | Monroe | Enrolled Bills Public Libraries |
James | Bennett | 1846 | 1850 | Braxton, Lewis, and Gilmer | Register's Office |
William L. | Boak | 1845 | 1849 | Berkeley | Claims |
Willis P. | Bocock | 1845 | 1847 | Buckingham | Courts of Justice (Chair) |
John W. | Breathed | 1846 | 1847 | Morgan | Lunatic Asylums Second Auditor's Office |
Andrew | Brown | 1846 | 1847 | Monongalia | Treasurer's Accounts |
Bazeleel | Brown | 1843 | 1847 | Albemarle | Finance Lunatic Asylums |
John G. | Brown | 1846 | 1847 | Rockingham | Armory |
Christopher T. | Browne | 1846 | 1848 | Mathews and Middlesex | Propositions and Grievances |
John S. | Burdett | 1846 | 1853 | Taylor | Register's Office |
William M. | Burwell | 1839 | 1865 | Bedford | Schools and Colleges |
Andrew H. | Byrd | 1836 | 1856 | Bath | |
William | Cackley | 1832 | 1851 | Pocahontas | Agriculture and Manufactures |
John B. | Calwell | 1842 | 1847 | Greenbrier | Public Libraries Register's Office |
Wyatt | Cardwell | 1838 | 1858 | Charlotte | Clerk's Office Enrolled Bills |
John C. | Carper | 1846 | 1847 | Franklin | Register's Office |
John | Carroll | 1839 | 1856 | Grayson and Carroll . | Armory Enrolled Bills |
James H. | Carson | 1844 | 1847 | Frederick | Executive Expenditures (Chair) |
James | Castleman | 1846 | 1847 | Warren and Clarke | Enrolled Bills Second Auditor's Office |
Hannibal | Chandler | 1846 | 1848 | Westmoreland | Executive Expenditures |
Thomas P. | Chisman | 1845 | 1847 | Elizabeth City and Warwick | Banks Bonds of Public Officers Public Libraries |
Chastain | Cocke | 1844 | 1848 | Powhatan | Finance Propositions and Grievances |
William M. | Cook | 1846 | 1850 | Roanoke | Finance |
James W. | Custis | 1846 | 1847 | Accomack | Armory Public Libraries |
Thomas H. | Daniel | 1842 | 1847 | Prince George | Privileges and Elections (Chair) Privileges and Elections |
Richard F. | Darracott | 1846 | 1849 | Hanover | Propositions and Grievances Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
Thomas | Davis | 1827 | 1847 | Orange and Greene | Agriculture and Manufactures (Chair) Privileges and Elections |
James M. G. | Dickinson | 1845 | 1847 | Caroline | Schools and Colleges |
Overton R. | Dillard | 1846 | 1847 | Henry | Bonds of Public Officers |
Charles P. | Dorman | 1833 | 1848 | Rockbridge | Militia Laws Roads and Internal Navigation |
John S. | Duncan | 1846 | 1847 | Harrison and Doddridge | Armory Bonds of Public Officers |
Daniel M. | Edgington | 1841 | 1848 | Ohio | Banks Roads and Internal Navigation |
Upton | Edmondson | 1846 | 1849 | Lunenberg | Agriculture and Manufactures Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
James P. | Edmundson | 1845 | 1851 | Montgomery and Pulaski | Schools and Colleges |
Samuel A.J. | Evans | 1846 | 1847 | Floyd | Executive Expenditures |
Buckner | Fairfax | 1836 | 1851 | Preston | First Auditor's Office Militia Laws |
William B. | Finney | 1846 | 1847 | Accomack | Treasurer's Accounts |
Edmund C. | Fitzhugh | 1846 | 1847 | Stafford | First Auditor's Office |
Benjamin Rush | Floyd | 1846 | 1847 | Wythe and Pulaski | Roads and Internal Navigation (Chair) Privileges and Elections |
Thomas | Fox | 1839 | 1847 | Campbell | Clerk's Office Propositions and Grievances |
John B. | Freeman | 1844 | 1847 | Sussex | Armory Banks |
John | Gaines | 1845 | 1847 | King and Queen | Clerk's Office (Chair) Claims |
Thomas H. | Gillespie | 1846 | 1848 | Tazewell | Penitentiary Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
Shimuel | Godwin | 1844 | 1847 | Isle of Wight | Claims Privileges and Elections |
William Osborne | Goode | 1822 | 1853 | Mecklenburg | |
Samuel E. | Goodson | 1838 | 1849 | Washington | Armory (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
William S. | Goodwin | 1846 | 1848 | Southampton | Schools and Colleges |
Samuel | Gresham | 1845 | 1847 | Lancaster and Richmond County | Claims |
George D. | Happer | 1844 | 1850 | Norfolk County | Propositions and Grievances Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
David | Hargrave | 1846 | 1850 | Surry | Penitentiary |
James F. | Harper | 1846 | 1848 | Rockbridge | Armory Propositions and Grievances |
Burr W. | Harrison | 1846 | 1849 | Loudoun | Schools and Colleges |
George W. | Harrison | 1846 | 1849 | Brunswick | Clerk's Office Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
William D. | Hart | 1846 | 1849 | Albemarle | Schools and Colleges |
Lewis E. | Harvie | 1841 | 1850 | Amelia | Banks Finance |
Thomas S. | Haymond | 1846 | 1848 | Marion | Enrolled Bills Roads and Internal Navigation Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
Asa | Hiett | 1845 | 1856 | Hampshire | Second Auditor's Office (Chair) Privileges and Elections |
Hiram | Hill | 1846 | 1850 | Fayette and Nicholas | Bonds of Public Officers Second Auditor's Office |
John N. | Hill | 1846 | 1848 | Shenandoah | Second Auditor's Office |
Alexander R. | Holladay | 1845 | 1847 | Spotsylvania | Claims (Chair) Privileges and Elections |
John W. | Horner | 1846 | 1851 | Tyler, Doddridge, and Wetzel | Enrolled Bills |
William | Howard | 1845 | 1849 | James City, York and Williamsburg | Lunatic Asylums Schools and Colleges |
Andrew | Hunter | 1846 | 1847 | Jefferson | Claims Public Libraries |
Henry P. | Irving | 1840 | 1849 | Cumberland | Privileges and Elections |
Chapman | Johnson | 1846 | 1848 | Augusta | Enrolled Bills Finance |
John Winston | Jones | 1846 | 1847 | Chesterfield | Finance (Chair) Privileges and Elections |
Richard P. | Jones | 1845 | 1847 | Gloucester | First Auditor's Office Roads and Internal Navigation |
Hugh H. | Kelly | 1846 | 1848 | Nansemond | Armory Lunatic Asylums |
Richmond T. | Lacy | 1842 | 1850 | Charles City and New Kent | Enrolled Bills First Auditor's Office Privileges and Elections |
John A. | Lancaster | 1846 | 1850 | Henrico | Armory Roads and Internal Navigation |
James | Lanier | 1843 | 1848 | Pittsylvania | Bonds of Public Officers Propositions and Grievances |
Douglass B. | Layne | 1833 | 1850 | Alleghany | Penitentiary (Chair) |
Walter D. | Leake | 1842 | 1853 | Goochland | Banks (Chair) Enrolled Bills Finance |
Charles Carter | Lee | 1844 | 1847 | Hardy | Roads and Internal Navigation |
Thomas R. | Love | 1846 | 1847 | Fairfax | Bonds of Public Officers |
John F. | Maclin | 1845 | 1849 | Brunswick | Agriculture and Manufactures Second Auditor's Office |
Samuel B. | Major | 1846 | 1854 | Halifax | Agriculture and Manufactures Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
Joseph | Mayo | 1846 | 1850 | Richmond City | Banks Privileges and Elections |
Samuel D. | McDearmon | 1845 | 1851 | Appomattox | Claims |
John F. | McElhenney | 1846 | 1848 | Russell | Penitentiary |
C. C. | McIntyre | 1845 | 1847 | Loudoun | Armory Privileges and Elections |
John | McPherson | 1838 | 1847 | Page | Militia Laws |
William H. | Morison | 1846 | 1848 | Scott | Clerk's Office |
John | Morris | 1846 | 1850 | Cabell and Wayne | Clerk's Office |
Charles L. | Mosby | 1846 | 1848 | Campbell | Banks Privileges and Elections Roads and Internal Navigation |
Edwin | Nelms | 1846 | 1847 | Northumberland | Propositions and Grievances Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
Anderson M. | Newman | 1846 | 1847 | Pendleton | Penitentiary |
Cincinnatus W. | Newton | 1845 | 1848 | Norfolk City | Militia Laws Roads and Internal Navigation |
Wylie H. | Oldham | 1846 | 1848 | Marshall | Claims |
Asa | Oliver | 1842 | 1847 | Nottoway | Executive Expenditures Privileges and Elections |
Spicer | Patrick | 1845 | 1854 | Kanawha | Schools and Colleges |
Charles | Perrow | 1846 | 1850 | Nelson | Enrolled Bills Executive Expenditures |
John | Poindexter Jr. | 1846 | 1847 | Louisa | Banks Privileges and Elections |
Paulus | Powell | 1843 | 1849 | Amherst | Claims Executive Expenditures |
William | Richmond | 1846 | 1847 | Lee | Agriculture and Manufactures Treasurer's Accounts |
Lawrence | Roane | 1839 | 1848 | Essex | Banks Lunatic Asylums |
Thomas | Robinson | 1845 | 1847 | King William | Trade and the Mechanic Arts (Chair) Propositions and Grievances |
Jonas P. | Schooley | 1846 | 1850 | Loudoun | Agriculture and Manufactures |
Robert E. | Scott | 1839 | 1853 | Fauquier | Privileges and Elections |
Reaves S. | Scruggs | 1844 | 1848 | Bedford | Agriculture and Manufactures Enrolled Bills |
Hugh White | Sheffey | 1846 | 1850 | Augusta | Lunatic Asylums Schools and Colleges |
Daniel F. | Slaughter | 1846 | 1847 | Culpeper | Claims Treasurer's Accounts |
Adam | Small | 1846 | 1847 | Berkeley | Armory |
William R. | Smith | 1835 | 1847 | Fauquier | Propositions and Grievances Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
James M. | Stephenson | 1839 | 1848 | Wood, Ritchie and Doddridge | Register's Office (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
Daniel | Stickley | 1843 | 1847 | Shenandoah | First Auditor's Office (Chair) |
George | Stillman | 1845 | 1850 | Fluvanna | Enrolled Bills (Chair) Penitentiary |
John W. | Stone | 1846 | 1848 | Princess Anne | Claims |
John B. | Stovall | 1842 | 1851 | Halifax | Banks Claims Finance Privileges and Elections |
William A. | Street | 1844 | 1847 | Franklin | Claims Militia Laws |
James French | Strother | 1840 | 1851 | Rappahannock | Bonds of Public Officers (Chair) Finance Privileges and Elections |
Henry | Sturm | 1838 | 1858 | Randolph and Barbour | Propositions and Grievances |
John W. | Syme | 1845 | 1850 | Petersburg | Banks Roads and Internal Navigation |
Thomas M. | Tate | 1840 | 1848 | Smyth | Lunatic Asylums (Chair) Schools and Colleges |
Edward B. | Tatum | 1845 | 1847 | Patrick | Armory |
Daniel | Thompson | 1845 | 1847 | Hampshire | Agriculture and Manufactures Treasurer's Accounts |
John W. | Thompson | 1843 | 1849 | Botetourt | Roads and Internal Navigation |
William B. | Thompson | 1846 | 1847 | Jefferson | Public Libraries Second Auditor's Office |
William F. | Thompson | 1843 | 1847 | Dinwiddie | Treasurer's Accounts (Chair) Lunatic Asylums |
Whitmell P. | Tunstall | 1836 | 1848 | Pittsylvania | Public Libraries (Chair) Privileges and Elections Roads and Internal Navigation |
John W. | Tyler | 1846 | 1847 | Prince William | Armory Finance |
Charles B. | Waggoner | 1846 | 1847 | Mason and Jackson | Agriculture and Manufactures Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
William H. | Walker | 1845 | 1847 | Greensville | Agriculture and Manufactures Clerk's Office Executive Expenditures |
John F. | Wall | 1845 | 1851 | Frederick | Register's Office |
Robert | Wallace | 1841 | 1850 | King George | First Auditor's Office Privileges and Elections |
Samuel | Watts | 1833 | 1847 | Norfolk County | Militia Laws (Chair) |
Cornelius | White | 1846 | 1847 | Giles and Mercer | Register's Office |
Edwin A. | Williams | 1846 | 1851 | Mecklenberg | First Auditor's Office Schools and Colleges |
George T. | Yerby | 1839 | 1858 | Northampton | Lunatic Asylums Penitentiary Roads and Internal Navigation |
*The information within this interactive and searchable application has been researched extensively by the House Clerk’s Office. As with any historical records of this age and breadth, there may be discrepancies and/or inconsistencies within records obtained from a variety of credible sources. Any feedback is encouraged at history@house.virginia.gov.