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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J. H. | Anderson | 1855 | 1856 | Logan, Boone, and Wyoming | Militia Laws Second Auditor's Office |
Ulysses N. | Arnett | 1852 | 1858 | Marion | Penitentiary Treasurer's Accounts |
Buckner | Ashby | 1855 | 1856 | Clarke | Agriculture and Manufactures Militia Laws |
George P. | Baker | 1855 | 1856 | Frederick | Executive Expenditures Schools and Colleges |
John S. | Barnes | 1853 | 1856 | Marion | Bonds of Public Officers Propositions and Grievances |
Colin | Bass | 1853 | 1863 | Roanoke | First Auditor's Office (Chair) Claims |
Landon C. | Berkeley | 1855 | 1856 | Richmond County and Westmoreland | Penitentiary Privileges and Elections |
Thomas M. | Bondurant | 1855 | 1856 | Buckingham | Agriculture and Manufactures Banks |
Arthur I. | Boreman | 1855 | 1861 | Wood | Banks Bonds of Public Officers |
S. | Bosworth | 1855 | 1856 | Randolph | Enrolled Bills Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
John | Brady | 1855 | 1856 | Ohio | Claims |
E. T. | Brandon | 1855 | 1856 | Preston | Militia Laws Penitentiary |
John | Brannon | 1853 | 1856 | Lewis | Courts of Justice Privileges and Elections |
J. G. | Brown | 1855 | 1856 | Rockingham | First Auditor's Office Penitentiary |
William A. | Burwell | 1855 | 1861 | Patrick | Library Privileges and Elections |
William M. | Burwell | 1839 | 1865 | Bedford | Library (Chair) Schools and Colleges |
William | Bush | 1855 | 1856 | Charles City, James City and New Kent | Lunatic Asylums |
Andrew H. | Byrd | 1836 | 1856 | Highland | Trade and the Mechanic Arts (Chair) |
R. C. | Bywaters | 1855 | 1856 | Frederick | Enrolled Bills Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
William M. | Cabell | 1855 | 1856 | Nelson | Courts of Justice Propositions and Grievances Register's Office |
John S. | Calvert | 1850 | 1856 | Shenandoah | Executive Expenditures (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
G. W. | Candler | 1855 | 1856 | Russell | Enrolled Bills Lunatic Asylums |
Samuel | Carpenter | 1852 | 1863 | Alleghany and Bath | Penitentiary (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
William C. | Carper | 1855 | 1856 | Upshur | Armory First Auditor's Office |
John | Carroll | 1839 | 1856 | Carroll | Clerk's Office (Chair) Militia Laws |
Richard H. | Carter | 1853 | 1856 | Fauquier | Claims (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
R. C. | Caruthers | 1855 | 1856 | Monongalia | Enrolled Bills Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
Bolivar | Christian | 1855 | 1861 | Augusta | Bonds of Public Officers Roads and Internal Navigation |
John H. | Claiborne | 1855 | 1856 | Petersburg | Finance |
Alexander | Clarke | 1855 | 1856 | Monroe | Second Auditor's Office Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
R. A. | Claybrook | 1855 | 1858 | Lancaster and Northumberland | Agriculture and Manufactures Courts of Justice |
John | Collins | 1855 | 1856 | Pleasants and Ritchie | Register's Office |
Henry | Cox | 1855 | 1858 | Henrico | Agriculture and Manufactures Treasurer's Accounts |
Job B. | Crabtree | 1855 | 1856 | Lee | Claims Militia Laws |
Charles J.F. | Craddock | 1855 | 1856 | Halifax | Finance |
G. L. | Crammer | 1855 | 1856 | Ohio | Armory First Auditor's Office |
John J. | Crawford | 1853 | 1856 | Dinwiddie | Lunatic Asylums |
James F. | Crocker | 1855 | 1856 | Isle of Wight | Schools and Colleges Treasurer's Accounts |
John S. | Crockett | 1855 | 1856 | Wythe | Propositions and Grievances Treasurer's Accounts |
Oscar Minor | Crutchfield | 1834 | 1861 | Spotyslvania | |
William Pope | Dabney | 1855 | 1858 | Cumberland and Powhatan | Banks Library |
Joseph | Daniels | 1855 | 1856 | Barbour | Claims |
A. W. G. | Davis | 1855 | 1856 | Greenbrier | Militia Laws Treasurer's Accounts |
John Dudley | Davis | 1855 | 1863 | Amherst | Clerk's Office Penitentiary |
Francis B. | Deane Jr. | 1853 | 1865 | Campbell | Roads and Internal Navigation |
Daniel C. | Dejarnette | 1853 | 1858 | Caroline | Claims Roads and Internal Navigation |
John | Dickenson | 1853 | 1858 | Grayson | Claims Second Auditor's Office |
Hiram B. | Dickinson | 1855 | 1856 | Richmond City | Armory |
Hughes | Dillard | 1855 | 1856 | Henry | Banks Courts of Justice |
William E. | Dodson | 1855 | 1856 | Mecklenberg | Claims |
Robert L. | Doyle | 1855 | 1856 | Rockbridge | Lunatic Asylums Privileges and Elections |
John S. | Draper | 1855 | 1865 | Pulaski | Clerk's Office Penitentiary |
Benjamin C. | Drew | 1855 | 1856 | Prince George and Surry | Militia Laws Penitentiary |
Edward | Dromgoole | 1855 | 1858 | Brunswick | Bonds of Public Officers Propositions and Grievances |
William T. | Early | 1852 | 1856 | Albemarle | Library Roads and Internal Navigation |
John R. | Edmunds | 1855 | 1863 | Halifax | Banks (Chair) Library |
William H. | Edwards | 1848 | 1861 | Franklin | Agriculture and Manufactures (Chair) |
Perry J. | Eggborn | 1853 | 1856 | Culpeper | Claims Clerk's Office |
Henry K. | Ellyson | 1853 | 1856 | Richmond City | Claims Roads and Internal Navigation Second Auditor's Office |
John B. | Floyd | 1847 | 1856 | Washington | Roads and Internal Navigation (Chair) Library |
Napoleon B. | French | 1855 | 1856 | Mercer | Propositions and Grievances Register's Office |
Daniel | Frost | 1855 | 1861 | Jackson | Executive Expenditures Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
Muscoe R. H. | Garnett | 1853 | 1856 | Essex and King & Queen | Finance (Chair) Library |
Absalom | George | 1855 | 1856 | Doddridge and Tyler | Executive Expenditures Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
William M. | Gillespie | 1855 | 1856 | Tazewell | Agriculture and Manufactures Privileges and Elections |
William F. C. | Gregory | 1855 | 1858 | Amelia and Nottoway | Courts of Justice |
John W. | Gurley | 1855 | 1856 | Southampton | Claims |
Peter L. | Hancock | 1855 | 1858 | Franklin | Clerk's Office Penitentiary |
William H. | Harding | 1855 | 1856 | Lancaster and Northumberland | Agriculture and Manufactures Penitentiary |
George W. | Hardy | 1852 | 1858 | Lunenberg | Treasurer's Accounts (Chair) Enrolled Bills |
Wells J. | Hawks | 1855 | 1858 | Jefferson | Clerk's Office Penitentiary |
Alexander D. | Haynes | 1855 | 1856 | Monroe | Lunatic Asylums Treasurer's Accounts |
Peregrine | Hays | 1855 | 1856 | Gilmer and Wirt | Lunatic Asylums Propositions and Grievances |
William K. | Heiskell | 1855 | 1856 | Washington | Banks |
Maximilian | Herbert | 1855 | 1856 | Norfolk County | Armory Executive Expenditures |
Asa | Hiett | 1845 | 1856 | Hampshire | Enrolled Bills Roads and Internal Navigation |
Jeremiah | Hobbs | 1855 | 1856 | Chesterfield | Executive Expenditures Propositions and Grievances |
John Blair | Hoge | 1855 | 1858 | Berkeley | Banks |
Andrew S. | Holden | 1853 | 1856 | Harrison | Bonds of Public Officers Schools and Colleges |
R. C. | Holliday | 1855 | 1856 | Marshall | Armory Second Auditor's Office |
George P. | Holman | 1855 | 1856 | Fluvanna | Agriculture and Manufactures Schools and Colleges |
Pleasant | Howell | 1855 | 1856 | Floyd | Agriculture and Manufactures |
John D. | Imboden | 1850 | 1856 | Augusta | Courts of Justice Privileges and Elections |
Robert | Johnston | 1855 | 1858 | Harrison | Banks Finance |
Crawford H. | Jones | 1855 | 1861 | Appomattox | Agriculture and Manufactures Library |
Edward T. | Jones | 1855 | 1856 | Rappahannock | Library Schools and Colleges |
Warner T. | Jones | 1855 | 1873 | Gloucester | Courts of Justice Militia Laws |
James B. | Kee | 1850 | 1861 | Pendleton | Armory (Chair) |
Joseph | Kelly | 1855 | 1856 | Russell | Armory First Auditor's Office |
James Lawson | Kemper | 1853 | 1863 | Madison | Militia Laws (Chair) Courts of Justice Library |
Richard M. | Kirby | 1855 | 1856 | Pittsylvania | Roads and Internal Navigation |
Obadiah W. | Langfitt | 1855 | 1856 | Brooke and Hancock | Library Privileges and Elections |
William | Lantz | 1855 | 1856 | Monongalia | Armory |
John H. | Lee | 1853 | 1858 | Greene and Orange | Propositions and Grievances (Chair) Library |
William T. | Lundy | 1855 | 1865 | Greensville and Sussex | Agriculture and Manufactures Register's Office |
Francis | Mallory | 1853 | 1858 | Norfolk City | Lunatic Asylums (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
John A. F. | Martin | 1853 | 1856 | Preston | Enrolled Bills Finance |
F. H. | Mays | 1855 | 1858 | Botetourt and Craig | Enrolled Bills Privileges and Elections Roads and Internal Navigation |
Adam | McChesney | 1855 | 1856 | Augusta | Banks Lunatic Asylums |
James T. | McIver | 1855 | 1856 | Scott | Armory |
Samuel P. R. | Moorman | 1855 | 1856 | Bedford | Lunatic Asylums |
C. W. | Murdaugh | 1855 | 1865 | Norfolk County | Schools and Colleges |
William | Nelson | 1855 | 1858 | Hanover | Enrolled Bills Finance |
Charles W. | Newlon | 1855 | 1856 | Taylor | Register's Office Roads and Internal Navigation |
George L. | Nicolson | 1842 | 1856 | Mathews and Middlesex | Schools and Colleges (Chair) Finance |
Adam | Nottingham | 1852 | 1858 | Pocahontas | Register's Office (Chair) |
M. B. | Nowlin | 1847 | 1856 | Campbell | Armory First Auditor's Office |
Isaac | Parsons | 1853 | 1856 | Hampshire | Armory Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
Andrew | Patterson | 1849 | 1861 | Rockbridge | Finance Register's Office |
James | Paul | 1855 | 1856 | Ohio | Courts of Justice |
Albert G. | Pendleton | 1843 | 1867 | Giles | Courts of Justice (Chair) |
Joseph K. | Pendleton | 1850 | 1856 | Louisa | Privileges and Elections (Chair) Courts of Justice |
Philip | Pittman | 1848 | 1865 | Shenandoah | Armory Propositions and Grievances |
Humphrey B. | Powell | 1855 | 1858 | Loudoun | Finance Library |
Thomas L. | Preston | 1855 | 1858 | Smyth | Finance Schools and Colleges |
Nathaniel | Riddick | 1853 | 1865 | Nansemond | Enrolled Bills (Chair) Propositions and Grievances |
Hiram | Riggs | 1855 | 1856 | Lee and Scott | Lunatic Asylums |
Joseph H. | Roberts | 1855 | 1856 | Charlotte | Claims |
Charles A. | Ronald | 1855 | 1858 | Montgomery | Bonds of Public Officers Courts of Justice |
Charles | Ruffner | 1855 | 1858 | Kanawha | Enrolled Bills Militia Laws |
John C. | Rutherfoord | 1852 | 1865 | Goochland | Banks Courts of Justice |
Henry J. | Samuels | 1855 | 1856 | Cabell | First Auditor's Office |
R. D. | Seaman | 1855 | 1858 | Berkeley | Lunatic Asylums |
John | Seddon | 1855 | 1861 | King George and Stafford | Banks |
Joseph | Segar | 1848 | 1861 | Elizabeth City, Warwick, York and Williamsburg | Banks Lunatic Asylums |
Bailey | Shumate | 1853 | 1856 | Fauquier | Lunatic Asylums |
Charles E. | Sinclair | 1853 | 1856 | Prince William | Courts of Justice Privileges and Elections |
Benjamin H. | Smith | 1855 | 1856 | Kanawha | Finance |
Edgar J. | Spady | 1855 | 1863 | Northampton | Schools and Colleges |
Mann | Spitler | 1853 | 1858 | Page | Second Auditor's Office (Chair) Armory |
J. M. R. | Sprinkle | 1853 | 1856 | Rockingham | Enrolled Bills Privileges and Elections |
Robert C. | Stanard | 1855 | 1856 | Richmond City | Bonds of Public Officers (Chair) Courts of Justice |
Lawrence B. | Taylor | 1855 | 1856 | Alexandria | Banks |
Griffith B. | Thomas | 1853 | 1856 | Mason | Agriculture and Manufactures Enrolled Bills |
Samuel W. | Thomas | 1855 | 1873 | Warren | Finance |
Robert N. B. | Thompson | 1855 | 1858 | Putnam | Roads and Internal Navigation |
James | Thrift | 1855 | 1856 | Fairfax | Executive Expenditures Militia Laws |
Harrison B. | Tomlin | 1847 | 1865 | King William | Courts of Justice |
T. Harris | Towner | 1855 | 1856 | Jefferson | Propositions and Grievances |
Thomas T. | Tredway | 1855 | 1865 | Prince Edward | Propositions and Grievances |
Marshall | Triplett | 1855 | 1856 | Braxton and Nicholas | Lunatic Asylums Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
William | Tyree | 1855 | 1856 | Fayette and Raleigh | Clerk's Office Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
Lemuel | Vanorsdall | 1850 | 1856 | Morgan | Penitentiary Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
Thomas W. | Walton | 1855 | 1856 | Pittsylvania | Agriculture and Manufactures Second Auditor's Office |
Arthur | Watson | 1855 | 1861 | Accomack | Lunatic Asylums Propositions and Grievances |
Jeremiah | Wellman | 1850 | 1856 | Wayne | Penitentiary Privileges and Elections |
Felix B. | Welton | 1848 | 1856 | Hardy | Finance |
David | West | 1852 | 1856 | Wetzel | Claims |
Robert M. | Wiley | 1852 | 1856 | Botetourt and Craig | Militia Laws Schools and Colleges |
Thomas | Wood | 1855 | 1861 | Albemarle | Schools and Colleges |
John | Woodhouse | 1853 | 1856 | Princess Anne | Privileges and Elections Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
Robert L. | Wright | 1850 | 1856 | Loudoun | Militia Laws Schools and Colleges |
William B. | Yancey | 1849 | 1856 | Rockingham | Agriculture and Manufactures Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
*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.