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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edmund R. | Allen | 1847 | 1851 | Accomack | Clerk's Office (Chair) |
| James | Arnold | 1850 | 1851 | King George | Register's Office Treasurer's Accounts |
| Thomas P. | August | 1850 | 1851 | Richmond City | Banks Finance |
| John S. | Barbour Jr. | 1847 | 1851 | Culpeper | Executive Expenditures (Chair) Courts of Justice |
| William R. | Baskerville | 1839 | 1865 | Mecklenberg | Schools and Colleges |
| Christopher J. | Beirne | 1846 | 1851 | Monroe | Penitentiary (Chair) Finance Roads and Internal Navigation |
| P. F. | Boisseau | 1848 | 1851 | Amelia | Agriculture and Manufactures Executive Expenditures |
| Phillip A. | Bolling | 1850 | 1851 | Cumberland | Courts of Justice |
| John J. | Bowcock | 1850 | 1858 | Albemarle | Privileges and Elections Public Libraries |
| Thomas J. | Boyd | 1848 | 1853 | Wythe | Finance |
| Eugenius L. | Boydston | 1850 | 1851 | Marion | Penitentiary Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Francis M. | Boykin | 1847 | 1851 | Isle of Wight | Lunatic Asylums Militia Laws Propositions and Grievances |
| Andrew | Brooks | 1844 | 1863 | Franklin | Banks Claims |
| William A. | Buckner | 1849 | 1853 | Caroline | First Auditor's Office (Chair) |
| William M. | Burwell | 1839 | 1865 | Bedford | Schools and Colleges (Chair) Finance |
| Thomas | Buswell | 1847 | 1851 | Page | Enrolled Bills Militia Laws |
| Thomas B. | Butt | 1848 | 1851 | Norfolk County | Register's Office (Chair) |
| William | Cackley | 1832 | 1851 | Pocahontas | Second Auditor's Committee Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Elisha | Callison | 1845 | 1851 | Greenbrier | Agriculture and Manufactures Second Auditor's Committee |
| John S. | Calvert | 1850 | 1856 | Shenandoah | Bonds of Public Officers Penitentiary |
| John M. | Campbell | 1849 | 1851 | Smyth | Schools and Colleges Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Thomas H. | Campbell | 1849 | 1851 | Nottoway | Courts of Justice Public Libraries |
| Edward C. | Carrington | 1850 | 1851 | Botetourt | Executive Expenditures |
| Isaac C. | Carrington | 1845 | 1851 | Charlotte | Enrolled Bills First Auditor's Office |
| Luther G. | Carrington | 1850 | 1853 | Loudoun | First Auditor's Office |
| John | Carroll | 1839 | 1856 | Carroll | Propositions and Grievances Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Charles | Carter | 1849 | 1851 | Albemarle | Schools and Colleges Treasurer's Accounts |
| Bowling | Clarke | 1849 | 1854 | Campbell | Agriculture and Manufactures Executive Expenditures |
| Richard I. | Cocke | 1850 | 1851 | Fluvanna | Courts of Justice |
| Joseph E. | Cox | 1850 | 1851 | Petersburg | Rules (Chair) Banks Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Robert | Craig | 1850 | 1852 | Roanoke | Roads and Internal Navigation (Chair) |
| Oscar Minor | Crutchfield | 1834 | 1861 | Spotyslvania | |
| Andrew | Damron | 1850 | 1851 | Alleghany | Armory Propositions and Grievances |
| Hiram W. | Dawson | 1850 | 1854 | Nelson | Penitentiary |
| Harvey | Deskins | 1836 | 1851 | Floyd | Trade and the Mechanic Arts (Chair) |
| Richmond F. | Dillard | 1850 | 1853 | Sussex | Armory |
| William | Dillard | 1848 | 1851 | Amherst | Claims Public Libraries |
| Thomas R. | Ditty | 1850 | 1851 | Westmoreland | Clerk's Office |
| James B. | Dorman | 1848 | 1851 | Rockbridge | Militia Laws (Chair) Privileges and Elections |
| Talbot S. | Duke | 1849 | 1851 | Jefferson | |
| Robert | Dunlap | 1850 | 1853 | Fayette and Nicholas | Enrolled Bills Propositions and Grievances |
| James P. | Edmundson | 1845 | 1851 | Montgomery and Pulaski | Bonds of Public Officers Propositions and Grievances |
| Thomas W. | Edwards | 1848 | 1851 | Loudoun | Claims Finance |
| William H. | Edwards | 1848 | 1861 | Franklin | Finance Lunatic Asylums |
| Buckner | Fairfax | 1836 | 1851 | Preston | Agriculture and Manufactures Militia Laws |
| James H. | Ferguson | 1848 | 1851 | Logan and Boone | Courts of Justice (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Louis C. H. | Finney | 1848 | 1851 | Accomack | Bonds of Public Officers (Chair) |
| Beverley R. | Fleming | 1849 | 1851 | Halifax | Banks Propositions and Grievances |
| William C. | Flournoy | 1850 | 1853 | Prince Edward | Banks Roads and Internal Navigation |
| William W. | Forbes | 1848 | 1851 | Buckingham | Armory (Chair) |
| James S. | Garrison | 1849 | 1851 | Princess Anne | Public Libraries Register's Office |
| Edward A. | Goodwyn | 1850 | 1851 | Dinwiddie | First Auditor's Office Privileges and Elections |
| Lewis | Grantham | 1849 | 1851 | Berkeley | Public Libraries (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
| James W. | Gresham | 1849 | 1851 | Lancaster and Richmond County | Claims |
| Peter | Guerrant | 1849 | 1851 | Goochland | Banks (Chair) |
| Richard N. | Hall | 1850 | 1851 | Henrico | Penitentiary Schools and Colleges |
| Allen C. | Hammond | 1849 | 1851 | Berkeley | Claims Enrolled Bills |
| Benoni E. | Harrison | 1848 | 1851 | Prince William | Treasurer's Accounts (Chair) |
| Robert T. | Harvey | 1850 | 1854 | Mason, Putnam, Wirt, and Jackson | Militia Laws Propositions and Grievances |
| Samuel L. | Hays | 1829 | 1851 | Braxton, Lewis, and Gilmer | Claims (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Robert | Henderson | 1849 | 1851 | Northumberland | Armory Register's Office |
| George Washington | Hopkins | 1833 | 1861 | Russell County, and Washington County | |
| John W. | Horner | 1846 | 1851 | Tyler, Doddridge, and Wetzel | Clerk's Office Propositions and Grievances |
| James R. | Houser | 1848 | 1851 | King and Queen | Claims Register's Office |
| William M. | Hume | 1849 | 1851 | Fauquier | Armory Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| John D. | Imboden | 1850 | 1856 | Augusta | Lunatic Asylums Privileges and Elections |
| William L. Lowther | Jackson | 1850 | 1853 | Wood, Wirt, Ritchie, and Doddridge | Courts of Justice |
| Wellington | Jenney | 1850 | 1851 | Marshall | Armory Treasurer's Accounts |
| John M. | Jewett | 1850 | 1851 | Jefferson | Second Auditor's Committee |
| Mortimer H. | Johnson | 1849 | 1858 | Taylor | Banks Finance |
| Alexander | Jones | 1847 | 1853 | Chesterfield | Propositions and Grievances (Chair) |
| James B. | Kee | 1850 | 1861 | Pendleton and Highland | Armory |
| Edward D. | Kernan | 1849 | 1851 | Russell | Agriculture and Manufactures |
| John R. | Kilby | 1848 | 1853 | Nansemond | Public Libraries Schools and Colleges |
| Burdett A. | Lewis | 1849 | 1851 | Brunswick | Courts of Justice |
| Charles S. | Lewis | 1849 | 1853 | Harrison and Doddridge | Privileges and Elections Schools and Colleges |
| Hiram | Martz | 1843 | 1858 | Rockingham County | Second Auditor's Committee (Chair) Finance |
| Edmund W. | Massey | 1848 | 1851 | Warren and Clarke | Armory Enrolled Bills |
| William D. | Massey | 1850 | 1853 | Alexandria | Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Alexander H. | McClintic | 1850 | 1851 | Bath and Highland | Claims Lunatic Asylums |
| John Marshall | McCue | 1848 | 1865 | Augusta | Enrolled Bills Propositions and Grievances Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Samuel D. | McDearmon | 1845 | 1851 | Appomattox | Privileges and Elections |
| Alexander | Monroe | 1850 | 1865 | Hampshire | Public Libraries Register's Office |
| Robert L. | Montague | 1850 | 1851 | Mathews and Middlesex | Bonds of Public Officers Privileges and Elections Schools and Colleges |
| Theodorick | Morris | 1849 | 1851 | Henry | Enrolled Bills Penitentiary |
| Richard J. | Muse | 1850 | 1853 | Essex | Enrolled Bills First Auditor's Office |
| Griffith D. | Neal | 1849 | 1851 | Pittsylvania | Propositions and Grievances Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| William J. | Neblett | 1850 | 1851 | Lunenberg | Armory |
| Morris D. | Newman | 1848 | 1853 | Madison | Enrolled Bills (Chair) Schools and Colleges |
| George A. W. | Newsom | 1850 | 1851 | Southampton | Militia Laws |
| Nelson | Page | 1849 | 1851 | Cumberland | Agriculture and Manufactures Executive Expenditures |
| Spicer | Patrick | 1845 | 1854 | Kanawha and Putnam | Lunatic Asylums |
| Andrew | Patterson | 1849 | 1861 | Rockbridge | Roads and Internal Navigation Schools and Colleges |
| George W | Pearis | 1850 | 1851 | Giles and Mercer | First Auditor's Office |
| Joseph K. | Pendleton | 1850 | 1856 | Louisa | Claims Privileges and Elections |
| Philip | Pittman | 1848 | 1865 | Shenandoah | Claims Enrolled Bills |
| William B. | Power | 1849 | 1853 | Brunswick | Bonds of Public Officers Executive Expenditures |
| Robert G. | Rives | 1847 | 1853 | Prince George | Agriculture and Manufactures (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation Rules |
| William J. | Robertson | 1849 | 1851 | Patrick | Penitentiary |
| Charles W. | Russell | 1850 | 1853 | Ohio | Courts of Justice Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Robert E. | Scott | 1839 | 1853 | Fauquier | Courts of Justice |
| William C. | Scott | 1850 | 1851 | Powhatan | Register's Office Treasurer's Accounts |
| Joseph | Segar | 1848 | 1861 | Elizabeth City and Warwick | Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Sebastian S. | Slemp | 1850 | 1853 | Lee | Agriculture and Manufactures |
| George W. | Southall | 1849 | 1851 | James City, York, and Williamsburg | Courts of Justice Lunatic Asylums |
| John M. | Speed | 1850 | 1853 | Campbell | Banks Courts of Justice Finance |
| Robert | Speer | 1850 | 1851 | Scott | Agriculture and Manufactures Armory |
| John B. | Stovall | 1842 | 1851 | Halifax | Finance (Chair) Rules |
| James French | Strother | 1840 | 1851 | Rappahannock | Courts of Justice
Finance Rules |
| Sholto T. | Stuart | 1850 | 1853 | Fairfax | Bonds of Public Officers |
| Simon S. | Stubbs | 1849 | 1851 | Norfolk City | Banks |
| William P. | Stump | 1849 | 1851 | Hampshire | Claims Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Henry | Sturm | 1838 | 1858 | Randolph and Barbour | Agriculture and Manufactures Claims |
| Charles F. | Suttle | 1849 | 1851 | Stafford | Clerk's Office First Auditor's Office |
| Richard M. | Sydnor | 1848 | 1851 | Frederick | Agriculture and Manufactures Bonds of Public Officers |
| William Booth | Taliaferro | 1874 | 1879 | Gloucester | Courts of Justice |
| Harrison B. | Tomlin | 1847 | 1865 | King William | Privileges and Elections (Chair) Rules |
| Daniel | Tompkins | 1843 | 1851 | Bedford | Propositions and Grievances Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Lemuel | Vanorsdall | 1850 | 1856 | Morgan | Clerk's Office |
| John F. | Wall | 1845 | 1851 | Frederick | Banks Militia Laws |
| Francis | Warman | 1849 | 1851 | Monongalia | Finance |
| Jeremiah | Wellman | 1850 | 1856 | Cabell, Putnam, and Wayne | Roads and Internal Navigation Schools and Colleges Treasurer's Accounts |
| Nathaniel | Wells | 1849 | 1852 | Brooke and Hancock | Roads and Internal Navigation Schools and Colleges Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Felix B. | Welton | 1848 | 1856 | Hardy | Claims Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| James W. | Wheadon | 1849 | 1851 | Surry | Clerk's Office Second Auditor's Committee |
| Simeon | Wheeler | 1850 | 1853 | Norfolk County | Courts of Justice Lunatic Asylums |
| Chastain | White | 1850 | 1854 | Hanover | Schools and Colleges Second Auditor's Committee |
| Thomas H. | Wilcox | 1850 | 1851 | Charles City and New Kent | Armory Privileges and Elections Treasurer's Accounts |
| Edwin A. | Williams | 1846 | 1851 | Mecklenberg | Propositions and Grievances Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| John | Willis | 1850 | 1851 | Orange and Greene | Lunatic Asylums Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Baxter R. | Wilson | 1850 | 1851 | Greensville | Clerk's Office Lunatic Asylums |
| Vincent | Witcher | 1823 | 1851 | Pittsylvania | Executive Expenditures Finance Roads and Internal Navigation |
| James W. M. | Witten | 1850 | 1853 | Tazewell | Agriculture and Manufactures Banks Privileges and Elections |
| Robert L. | Wright | 1850 | 1856 | Loudoun | Agriculture and Manufactures Second Auditor's Committee |
| William B. | Yancey | 1849 | 1856 | Rockingham | Armory Privileges and Elections Roads and Internal Navigation |
| George T. | Yerby | 1839 | 1858 | Northampton | Lunatic Asylums (Chair) 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.