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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Berkley D. | Adams | 1904 | 1938 | Charlotte | Chesapeake and its Tributaries General Laws Immigration Retrenchment and Economy |
W. W. | Baker | 1899 | 1916 | Chesterfield | Insurance and Banking (Chair) Finance Privileges and Elections |
William E. | Barrett | 1906 | 1908 | Newport News | Courts of Justice Officers and Offices at the Capitol Roads and Internal Navigation |
Alden | Bell | 1908 | 1912 | Culpeper | Courts of Justice Schools and Colleges Special, Private and Local Legislation |
A. M. | Bowman | 1901 | 1912 | Craig, Roanoke City and Roanoke County | Finance (Chair) Agriculture and Mining Executive Expenditures |
Burder B. | Bowman | 1906 | 1910 | Shenandoah | Agriculture and Mining Militia and Police Privileges and Elections |
G. W. | Breckinridge | 1908 | 1908 | Botetourt | Counties, Cities and Towns Federal Relations House Expenses |
Oscar Cleveland | Brewer | 1908 | 1908 | Pulaski | Enrolled Bills Executive Expenditures Library Special, Local and Private Legislation |
W. N. | Brown | 1906 | 1912 | Pittsylvania and Danville | Counties, Cities and Towns Insurance and Banking Privileges and Elections |
Richard Evelyn | Byrd | 1906 | 1912 | Frederick and Winchester | Rules (Chair) |
James R. | Caton | 1901 | 1908 | Alexandria County and Alexandria City | Privileges and Elections (Chair) Courts of Justice Finance Insurance and Banking Rules |
Joseph H. | Chitwood | 1908 | 1908 | Fluvanna | Courts of Justice House Expenses Privileges and Elections |
John W. | Churchman | 1897 | 1908 | Augusta and Staunton | Roads and Internal Navigation (Chair) Retrenchment and Economy Rules |
Thomas E. | Clarke | 1897 | 1912 | Dinwiddie | Officers and Offices at the Capitol (Chair) Currency and Commerce Printing Roads and Internal Navigation |
S. Fletcher | Clement | 1906 | 1915 | Pittsylvania and Danville | General Laws Immigration Officers and Offices at the Capitol |
Merritt T. | Cooke | 1891 | 1910 | Norfolk City | Currency and Commerce Insurance and Banking Joint Committee on Confirmations Roads and Internal Navigation |
Lewis King | Cornett | 1906 | 1910 | Grayson | Asylums and Prisons Officers and Offices at the Capitol Public Property |
Edwin P. | Cox | 1904 | 1915 | Richmond City | General Laws (Chair) Immigration Rules |
J. S. | Craig | 1895 | 1908 | Rockbridge and Buena Vista | Agriculture and Mining Counties, Cities and Towns Insurance and Banking |
John | Curlett | 1906 | 1908 | Lancaster and Richmond County | Chesapeake and its Tributaries Schools and Colleges |
John Orr | Daniel | 1908 | 1916 | Fauquier and Loudoun | Claims Executive Expenditures Federal Relations and Resolutions Labor and the Poor |
William B. | Daniel | 1904 | 1908 | Surry and Prince George | Asylums and Prisons Labor and the Poor Retrenchment and Economy |
Thomas M. | Dunn | 1906 | 1910 | Albemarle and Charlottesville | Agriculture and Mining Executive Expenditures Roads and Internal Navigation Schools and Colleges |
Thomas H. | Edwards | 1899 | 1910 | King William and Hanover | Chesapeake and its Tributaries Courts of Justice Currency and Commerce House Expenses |
D. L. | Eller | 1906 | 1908 | Floyd | Claims Officers and Offices at the Capitol Retrenchment and Economy |
William D. | Evans | 1908 | 1910 | Mathews and Middlesex | Claims Enrolled Bills Public Property Retrenchment and the Economy |
Howell C. | Featherston | 1908 | 1908 | Campbell | Courts of Justice Insurance and Banking Retrenchment and Economy |
Harry C. | Glenn | 1906 | 1908 | Richmond City | General Laws Insurance and Banking Privileges and Elections |
William Edward | Goffigan | 1908 | 1908 | New Kent, Charles City, James City, York, Warwick, and Williamsburg | Chesapeake and its Tributaries Executive Expenditures Privileges and Elections |
Peter Ben F. | Good | 1906 | 1910 | Rockingham | Manufactures and Mechanic Arts Privileges and Elections Schools and Colleges |
C. O'Conor | Goolrick | 1908 | 1908 | Spotsylvania and Fredericksburg | General Laws Retrenchment and Economy Schools and Colleges |
Deskin | Green | 1908 | 1908 | Tazewell and Buchanan | Printing Public Property Retrenchment and Economy |
M. M. | Green | 1901 | 1908 | Fauquier | Public Property (Chair) Federal Relations Officers and Offices at the Capitol Roads and Internal Navigation |
William D. | Griffith | 1908 | 1908 | Russell | Manufactures and Mechanic Arts Militia and Police |
Alexander S. | Hall | 1908 | 1908 | Buckingham and Cumberland | Claims General Laws Labor and the Poor |
John W. | Hodges | 1908 | 1908 | Halifax | Claims Federal Relations Labor and the Poor |
Harry Rutherford | Houston | 1906 | 1924 | Elizabeth City, Accomac, and Hampton | Chesapeake and Its Tributaries Currency and Commerce Finance Militia and Police |
William E. | Howle | 1904 | 1908 | Isle of Wight | Chesapeake and its Tributaries Currency and Commerce Militia and Police Public Property |
Alexander Bruce | Hunt | 1908 | 1908 | Roanoke City | Chesapeake and its Tributaries Enrolled Bills Officers and Offices at the Capitol Roads and Internal Navigation |
Tyson | Janney | 1908 | 1908 | Prince William | Enrolled Bills House Expenses Joint Committee on Confirmations Schools and Colleges |
Tipton D. | Jennings | 1897 | 1912 | Lynchburg | Counties, Cities and Towns (Chair) Executive Expenditures Finance |
Theodore Augustus | Jett | 1908 | 1916 | Northumberland and Westmoreland | Chesapeake and its Tributaries Executive Expenditures Public Property |
M. M. | Johnson | 1906 | 1908 | Clarke and Warren | Federal Relations House Expenses Schools and Colleges |
Charles A. | Johnston | 1906 | 1910 | Montgomery and Radford | Library (Chair) Federal Relations Finance Public Property |
James M. | Lewis | 1904 | 1910 | King and Queen & Essex | Immigration (Chair) Privileges and Elections Special, Private and Local Legislation |
David Solon | Louderback | 1906 | 1908 | Page and Rappahannock | Counties, Cities and Towns Labor and the Poor Privileges and Elections |
Fenton M. | Love | 1906 | 1908 | Loudoun | Executive Expenditures (Chair) Agriculture and Mining Chesapeake and its Tributaries Retrenchment and Economy |
Stephen Henry | Love | 1908 | 1916 | Lunenburg | Asylums and Prisons Counties, Cities and Towns Labor and the Poor |
Henry Clay | Lowry | 1904 | 1916 | Bedford | Claims (Chair) Privileges and Elections Special, Private and Local Legislation |
John G. | Luce | 1908 | 1908 | Goochland and Fluvanna | Immigration Insurance and Banking Library Roads and Internal Navigation |
Claudius N. | Markham | 1908 | 1908 | Portsmouth | Claims Counties, Cities and Towns Immigration Militia and Police |
Eugene C. | Massie | 1906 | 1908 | Richmond City | Courts of Justice (Chair) Federal Relations Militia and Police |
Samuel L. | Millard | 1908 | 1908 | Washington and Bristol | Counties, Cities and Towns Enrolled Bills Immigration |
Richard Cassius Lee | Moncure | 1906 | 1910 | Stafford and King George | Immigration Insurance and Banking Roads and Internal Navigation |
Hill | Montague | 1908 | 1915 | Richmond City | Asylums and Prisons Courts of Justice Labor and the Poor |
H. S. | Myers | 1908 | 1910 | Amherst | Asylums and Prisons Enrolled Bills Officers and Offices at the Capitol Retrenchment and Economy |
Carl H. | Nolting | 1908 | 1910 | Louisa | Agriculture and Mining Militia and Police Roads and Internal Navigation |
William W. | Old Jr. | 1906 | 1908 | Norfolk City | Chesapeake and its Tributaries Executive Expenditures Schools and Colleges |
Walter Tansill | Oliver | 1908 | 1915 | Fairfax | Courts of Justice Enrolled Bills Schools and Colleges |
John J. | Owen | 1899 | 1908 | Prince Edward | Agriculture and Mining (Chair) Finance Labor and the Poor Privileges and Elections |
Edwin W. | Owens | 1901 | 1910 | Norfolk County | Militia and Police (Chair) Currency and Commerce Finance |
Rosewell | Page | 1908 | 1910 | Hanover | Asylums and Prisons Courts of Justice Schools and Colleges |
Charles Sumner | Pendleton | 1906 | 1910 | Scott | Currency and Commerce General Laws House Expenses |
D. H. | Pitts | 1906 | 1919 Ex.; 1922-1924 | Albemarle and Charlottesville | Finance Militia and Police Public Property |
R. S. | Powell | 1895 | 1908 | Brunswick | Currency and Commerce (Chair) Asylums and Prisons Federal Relations |
David Breonard | Powers Jr. | 1901 | 1915 | Caroline | Counties, Cities and Towns Currency and Commerce General Laws |
Willis C. | Pulliam | 1906 | 1908 | Chesterfield, Powhatan, and Manchester | Asylums and Prisons Courts of Justice Manufactures and Mechanic Arts |
S. P. | Read | 1901 | 1908 | Mecklenburg | Schools and Colleges (Chair) Federal Relations and Resolutions Labor and the Poor |
John R. | Rew | 1904 | 1910 | Accomack | Chesapeake and Its Tributaries (Chair) Courts of Justice Currency and Commerce |
George L. | Richardson | 1908 | 1912 | Henry | Labor and the Poor Militia and Police |
Harry G. | Robinson | 1908 | 1910 | Wythe | Executive Expenditures Retrenchment and Economy Special, Private and Local Legislation |
Harry Miller | Rogers | 1904 | 1908 | Rockingham | Agriculture and Mining Asylums and Prisons Currency and Commerce Printing |
Lindsay M. | Silvester | 1908 | 1910 | Norfolk County | Claims Counties, Cities and Towns Manufactures and Mechanic Arts |
George Tabscott | Snead | 1897 | 1919 Ex. | Princess Anne | Asylums and Prisons (Chair) Chesapeake and its Tributaries Public Property |
Nathaniel Eakin | Spessard | 1904 | 1915 | Alleghany, Craig and Clifton Forge | Retrenchment and the Economy (Chair) Finance Manufactures and Mechanic Arts |
Joseph | Stebbins Jr. | 1908 | 1912 | Halifax | General Laws Immigration Manufactures and Mechanic Arts |
Samuel Wilson | Sterrett | 1904 | 1908 | Bath, Highland, Buena Vista, and Rockbridge | Manufactures and Mechanic Arts (Chair) Finance Retrenchment and Economy |
Thomas J. | Stratton | 1908 | 1912 | Appomattox | Agriculture and Mining Claims Insurance and Banking Privileges and Elections |
Alexander | Stuart | 1908 | 1908 | Washington and Bristol | Counties, Cities and Towns Joint Committee on Confirmations Manufactures and Mechanic Arts Schools and Colleges |
James N. | Stubbs | 1897 | 1918 | Gloucester | General Laws Immigration Insurance and Banking Library |
Isaac W. | Surratt | 1908 | 1908 | Carroll | Enrolled Bills Federal Relations Manufactures and Mechanic Arts |
Simpson Holiday | Sutherland | 1908 | 1908 | Dickenson and Wise | Enrolled Bills Executive Expenditures Federal Relations |
J. A. | Sydnor | 1906 | 1910 | Amelia and Nottoway | Printing (Chair) Counties, Cities and Towns Labor and the Poor Manufactures and Mechanic Arts |
Charles C. | Taliaferro | 1895 | 1910 | Orange | Agriculture and Mining Officers and Offices at the Capitol Roads and Internal Navigation |
James E. | Thrift | 1908 | 1908 | Madison and Greene | Courts of Justice Enrolled Bills Special, Private and Local Legislation |
C. W. | Throckmorton | 1906 | 1912 | Henrico | General Laws Officers and Offices at the Capitol Roads and Internal Navigation |
Clement D. | Tyler | 1908 | 1908 | Lee | Federal Relations Library Public Property |
Silas H. | Walker | 1895 | 1908 | Augusta and Staunton | Labor and the Poor (Chair) Finance Public Property |
J. S. | Weaver | 1908 | 1908 | Sussex and Greensville | Executive Expenditures Militia and Police Officers and Offices at the Capitol Public Property |
Thomas S. | West | 1887 | 1910 | Bedford | Confirmations (Chair) Agriculture and Mining Currency and Commerce Insurance and Banking |
George W. | Whitehead | 1906 | 1910 | Nelson | Currency and Commerce Immigration Manufactures and Mechanic Arts Militia and Police |
R. Bolling | Wilcox Jr. | 1908 | 1908 | Petersburg | Asylums and Prisons Labor and the Poor Manufactures and Mechanic Arts Special, Private and Local Legislation |
John T. | Wilkins III | 1906 | 1908 | Northampton and Accomack | Chesapeake and its Tributaries Counties, Cities and Towns Enrolled Bills Officers and Offices at the Capitol Printing |
Junius Washington | Williams | 1908 | 1910 | Southampton | Agriculture and Mining Asylums and Prisons Claims |
Martin | Williams | 1906 | 1915 | Giles and Bland | House Expenses (Chair) General Laws Insurance and Banking Rules Schools and Elections |
Samuel H. | Wilson | 1906 | 1910 | Pittsylvania and Danville | Federal Relations and Resolutions (Chair) Finance Immigration Joint Committee on Confirmations |
Charles E. | Wingo | 1908 | 1910 | Richmond City | Finance Manufactures and Mechanic Arts Officers and Offices at the Capitol |
Jacob Hosteller | Wissler | 1906 | 1912 | Smyth | Asylums and Prisons Finance Immigration |
Robert W. | Withers | 1904 | 1908 | Nansemond | Enrolled Bills (Chair) General Laws Roads and Internal Navigation Privileges and Elections |
Daniel Hillsman | Wood | 1908 | 1908 | Patrick | Agriculture and Mining Claims Executive Expenditures Public Property |
*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.