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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John B. | Ailworth | 1841 | 1844 | Accomack | Bonds of Public Officers Executive Expenditures |
Robert S. | Apperson | 1841 | 1842 | Charles City and New Kent | Bonds of Public Officers |
Edward J. | Armstrong | 1839 | 1844 | Harrison | First Auditor's Office Schools and Colleges |
Briscoe G. | Baldwin | 1841 | 1842 | Augusta | Courts of Justice (Chair) Banks |
Robert A. | Banks | 1839 | 1847 | Madison | Militia Laws Propositions and Grievances |
Thomas H. | Bayly | 1836 | 1842 | Accomack | Public Libraries (Chair) Courts of Justice |
Lemuel J. | Bowden | 1841 | 1846 | James City, York and Williamsburg | Lunatic Asylums Schools and Colleges |
Henry | Bowen | 1841 | 1842 | Tazewell | Register's Office |
Francis W. | Boyd | 1840 | 1842 | Mecklenburg | Schools and Colleges |
Basil | Brawner | 1841 | 1846 | Prince William | Clerk's Office |
Edmund | Broadus | 1830 | 1846 | Culpeper | Finance |
Robert S. | Brooke | 1831 | 1843 | Augusta | |
Hinde R. D. | Brown | 1841 | 1844 | Elizabeth City and Warwick | Executive Expenditures |
William G. | Brown | 1832 | 1843 | Preston | Register's Office (Chair) Executive Expenditures |
Isaac N. | Buck | 1841 | 1842 | Warren and Clarke | First Auditor's Office |
Richard E. | Byrd | 1839 | 1844 | Frederick | Second Auditor's Office (Chair) Courts of Justice |
Allen T. | Caperton | 1841 | 1842 | Monroe | Courts of Justice Public Libraries |
Allen T. | Caperton | 1841 | 1861 | Monroe | |
Wyatt | Cardwell | 1838 | 1858 | Charlotte | Enrolled Bills (Chair) Agriculture and Manufactures |
John | Carroll | 1839 | 1856 | Grayson | Agriculture and Manufactures |
John D. | Cheatham | 1840 | 1842 | Patrick | Lunatic Asylums Propositions and Grievances |
William H. | Clarke | 1839 | 1842 | Halifax | Finance Privileges and Elections |
Robert A. | Clendenin | 1841 | 1842 | Logan | Agriculture and Manufactures |
George | Cowan | 1840 | 1846 | Russell | Penitentiary |
James H. | Cox | 1837 | 1842 | Chesterfield | Penitentiary (Chair) Bonds of Public Officers |
Philip | Cox | 1841 | 1842 | Braxton and Lewis | Propositions and Grievances |
David | Crawford | 1838 | 1842 | Shenandoah | Claims |
Oscar Minor | Crutchfield | 1834 | 1861 | Spotyslvania | |
Benjamin F. | Dabney | 1829 | 1842 | King William | First Auditor's Office (Chair) Militia Laws |
Raleigh T. | Daniel | 1841 | 1845 | Richmond City | Banks Courts of Justice Roads and Internal Navigation |
John D. | Davis | 1841 | 1842 | Amherst | Militia Laws Public Libraries |
John J. | Davis | 1841 | 1842 | Montgomery and Pulaski | Penitentiary |
William B. | Davis | 1840 | 1845 | King and Queen | Executive Expenditures |
Harvey | Deskins | 1836 | 1851 | Floyd | Second Auditor's Office Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
John H. | Dey | 1840 | 1846 | Princess Anne | Claims |
Samuel | Diggs | 1840 | 1842 | Mathews and Middlesex | Armory |
Charles P. | Dorman | 1833 | 1848 | Rockbridge | Finance (Chair) Public Libraries |
Jubal A. | Early | 1841 | 1842 | Franklin | Enrolled Bills Penitentiary |
Daniel M. | Edgington | 1841 | 1848 | Ohio | Banks Bonds of Public Officers |
Elias B. | Edmonds | 1841 | 1843 | Lancaster and Richmond County | Lunatic Asylums |
Samuel | Elliott | 1840 | 1842 | Randolph | Clerk's Office Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
Henry | Erskine | 1830 | 1842 | Greenbrier | Trade and the Mechanic Arts (Chair) Finance |
William | Etheridge | 1840 | 1842 | Norfolk County | Schools and Colleges Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
George | Fitzgerald | 1840 | 1842 | Nottoway | Executive Expenditures |
James W. | Ford | 1838 | 1842 | Stafford | Courts of Justice |
James W. | Foster | 1841 | 1842 | Fauquier | Enrolled Bills Propositions and Grievances |
William H. | French | 1841 | 1845 | Giles and Mercer | Finance |
Wright | Gatewood | 1841 | 1854 | Shenandoah | Register's Office |
Samuel E. | Goodson | 1838 | 1849 | Washington | Roads and Internal Navigation Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
Jeremiah | Griggs | 1841 | 1842 | Henry | Second Auditor's Office |
John | Grimes | 1841 | 1842 | Pocahontas | Agriculture and Manufactures Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
John | Guerrant | 1839 | 1842 | Goochland | Militia Laws |
Joshua M. | Harrell | 1840 | 1842 | Nansemond | Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
James J. | Harrison | 1841 | 1845 | Brunswick | Bonds of Public Officers |
Joseph F. | Harrison | 1841 | 1842 | Monongalia | Agriculture and Manufactures |
Lewis E. | Harvie | 1841 | 1850 | Amelia | Banks Privileges and Elections |
John W. | Haskins | 1841 | 1842 | Buckingham | Banks Privileges and Elections |
Henry G. | Heath | 1839 | 1842 | Prince George | Claims |
Joseph | Hiden | 1839 | 1842 | Orange and Greene | Claims First Auditor's Office |
Harman | Hiner | 1816 | 1842 | Pendleton | Agriculture and Manufactures Claims |
John Z. | Holladay | 1840 | 1842 | Louisa | Claims (Chair) Courts of Justice |
Joel | Holleman | 1832 | 1844 | Isle of Wight | Banks (Chair) Courts of Justice |
William G. | Holloway | 1838 | 1842 | Alleghany | Claims Treasurer's Accounts |
Henry Laurens | Hopkins | 1835 | 1863 | Powhatan | Bonds of Public Officers (Chair) Privileges and Elections |
Edmund P. | Hunter | 1834 | 1842 | Berkeley | Armory (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
Henry P. | Irving | 1840 | 1849 | Cumberland | Courts of Justice Privileges and Elections Public Libraries |
John J. | Jackson | 1825 | 1845 | Wood | Propositions and Grievances (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
James | Jones | 1841 | 1844 | Buckingham | Penitentiary |
William | Jones | 1840 | 1842 | Brooke | Schools and Colleges Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
John | Keen | 1839 | 1843 | Pittsylvania | Claims Penitentiary |
Anthony | Kennedy | 1839 | 1842 | Jefferson | Agriculture and Manufactures Schools and Colleges |
Daniel | Kincheloe | 1820 | 1842 | Harrison | Lunatic Asylums Militia Laws |
William | Kinney | 1838 | 1842 | Augusta | Lunatic Asylums (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation Schools and Colleges |
Isaac J. | Leftwich | 1841 | 1846 | Wythe and Pulaski | Banks Finance |
Alfred | Leyburn | 1835 | 1842 | Rockbridge | Agriculture and Manufactures (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation Schools and Colleges |
Littleberry N. | Ligon | 1841 | 1842 | Nelson | Lunatic Asylums |
Robert T. | Marshall | 1840 | 1843 | Lunenberg | Armory |
Jefferson T. | Martin | 1841 | 1843 | Marshall | First Auditor's Office |
Presley | Martin | 1841 | 1842 | Tyler | Register's Office |
Robert | Mayo Jr. | 1841 | 1842 | Westmoreland | Bonds of Public Officers Privileges and Elections |
George | Mayse | 1822 | 1842 | Bath | Lunatic Asylums Propositions and Grievances |
John | McCauley | 1833 | 1853 | Roanoke | Agriculture and Manufactures |
T. M. | McIlhaney | 1841 | 1842 | Loudoun | Armory |
Addison | McLaughlin | 1828 | 1848 | Fayette and Nicholas | Claims Roads and Internal Navigation |
John | McPherson | 1838 | 1847 | Page | Armory Clerk's Office |
Sherwin | McRae | 1839 | 1846 | Henrico | Clerk's Office (Chair) Schools and Colleges |
Thomas P. | Mitchell | 1838 | 1846 | Bedford | Lunatic Asylums Second Auditor's Office |
John | Moler | 1841 | 1842 | Jefferson | Second Auditor's Office |
Frederick | Moore | 1841 | 1849 | Cabell | Claims Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
William S. | Morgan | 1841 | 1842 | Monongalia | Register's Office |
John | Mullen | 1828 | 1842 | Hardy | Roads and Internal Navigation |
James M. | Newkirk | 1841 | 1853 | Berkeley | Penitentiary Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
B. W. | Nowlin | 1841 | 1843 | Campbell | Claims |
Cromwell | Orrick | 1840 | 1842 | Morgan | Agriculture and Manufactures Propositions and Grievances |
Barrett G. | Payne | 1804 | 1845 | Fluvanna | Trade and the Mechanic Arts Treasurer's Accounts |
David | Pugh | 1841 | 1842 | Hampshire | Armory |
Charles | Quillen | 1839 | 1850 | Scott | Register's Office |
Sanford J. | Ramey | 1839 | 1845 | Loudoun | Enrolled Bills Propositions and Grievances |
Joseph A. | Riddick | 1841 | 1842 | Brunswick | First Auditor's Office |
Alexander | Rives | 1834 | 1842 | Albemarle | Schools and Colleges (Chair) Finance |
Augustine W. | Robins | 1841 | 1845 | Gloucester | First Auditor's Office |
John M. | Robinson | 1841 | 1842 | Botetourt | Agriculture and Manufactures |
Archibald | Samuel | 1829 | 1843 | Caroline | Armory Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
George C. | Scott | 1841 | 1842 | Mecklenburg | Executive Expenditures |
Robert E. | Scott | 1839 | 1853 | Fauquier | Privileges and Elections (Chair) Courts of Justice |
James | Semple | 1841 | 1842 | Essex | Treasurer's Accounts |
James C. | Shipman | 1839 | 1842 | Rockingham | Claims Clerk's Office |
Daniel | Smith | 1827 | 1854 | Kanawha | Banks Lunatic Asylums Roads and Internal Navigation |
Edward H. | Smith | 1839 | 1842 | Rockingham | Enrolled Bills Roads and Internal Navigation |
James M. | Smith | 1840 | 1842 | Northumberland | Propositions and Grievances Schools and Colleges |
Nehemiah | Smith | 1831 | 1842 | Mason and Jackson | Lunatic Asylums Propositions and Grievances |
Valentine Wood | Southall | 1833 | 1846 | Albemarle | |
Thomas | Spencer | 1809 | 1842 | Greensville | Clerk's Office |
James French | Strother | 1840 | 1851 | Rappahannock | Executive Expenditures (Chair) Banks Lunatic Asylums Privileges and Elections |
Thomas M. | Tate | 1840 | 1848 | Smyth | Propositions and Grievances |
Robert E. | Taylor | 1841 | 1845 | Norfolk Borough | Banks Courts of Justice |
Timothy | Taylor Jr. | 1835 | 1842 | Loudoun | Militia Laws |
Henry W. Wirtz | Thomas | 1841 | 1849 | Fairfax | Privileges and Elections |
Charles | Thompson | 1840 | 1842 | Hanover | Claims Treasurer's Accounts |
Richard H. | Toler | 1839 | 1846 | Campbell | Roads and Internal Navigation (Chair) Banks |
James B. | Urquhart | 1839 | 1842 | Southampton | Lunatic Asylums Register's Office |
William | Vance | 1832 | 1842 | Hampshire | Finance |
Alfred J. | Vaughan | 1835 | 1842 | Dinwiddie | Clerk's Office |
John H. | Walker | 1841 | 1844 | Sussex | Treasurer's Accounts |
Robert | Wallace | 1841 | 1850 | King George | Finance Public Libraries |
Thomas | Wallace | 1841 | 1854 | Petersburg | Banks Courts of Justice Public Libraries |
Dawson | Warren | 1840 | 1844 | Surry | Schools and Colleges |
Thomas | Watkins | 1841 | 1842 | Halifax | Roads and Internal Navigation Second Auditor's Office |
Samuel | Watts | 1833 | 1847 | Norfolk County | Militia Laws (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
Robert W. | Williams | 1841 | 1842 | Pittsylvania | Enrolled Bills Second Auditor's Office |
James H. | Wilson | 1841 | 1853 | Prince Edward | Schools and Colleges Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
Gustavus A. | Wingfield | 1841 | 1843 | Bedford | Courts of Justice Enrolled Bills |
William | Wood | 1830 | 1844 | Frederick | Banks Treasurer's Accounts |
Valentine A. | Woodard | 1841 | 1842 | Lee | Agriculture and Manufactures |
Wyley P. | Woods | 1831 | 1842 | Franklin | Agriculture and Manufactures Propositions and Grievances |
George T. | Yerby | 1839 | 1858 | Northampton | Treasurer's Accounts (Chair) Lunatic Asylums |
*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.