1839-1840 Session Information
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- Start Date: Dec 2 1839
- End Date: Mar 19 1840
- Notes: Session: December 2, 1839 to March 19, 1840
- Journal Link:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433014925584;view=1up;seq=7
- Speaker:
Thomas Walker Gilmer
- Clerk:
George Wythe Munford
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Special Sessions:
| Name | Locality | Committees |
|---|---|---|
| George Alderson | Fayette and Nicholas | Claims |
| Jonas Aleshire | Page | Clerk's Office |
| James Allen | Hampshire | Second Auditor's Office |
| Joseph T. Allyn | Norfolk Borough | Lunatic Asylums Treasurer's Accounts |
| Archibald Anderson | Louisa | Lunatic Asylums |
| Edward J. Armstrong | Harrison | First Auditor's Office Schools and Colleges |
| Robert L. Baker | Frederick | Lunatic Asylums Register's Office |
| Robert A. Banks | Madison | Privileges and Elections |
| Samuel Bare | Shenandoah | Register's Office |
| Richard Walker Barton | Frederick | Agriculture and Manufactures (Chair) |
| William R. Baskerville | Mecklenberg | Bonds of Public Officers Second Auditor's Office |
| Thomas H. Bayly | Accomack | Courts of Justice Schools and Colleges |
| Lewis Beard | Loudoun | Second Auditor's Office (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Edmund Broadus | Culpeper | Bonds of Public Officers Finance |
| Nathaniel Burwell | Clarke and Warren | Agriculture and Manufactures Penitentiary |
| William M. Burwell | Bedford | Public Libraries Schools and Colleges |
| Augustine C. Butts | Greensville | Privileges and Elections Register's Office |
| Richard E. Byrd | Frederick | Courts of Justice Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Edward A. Cabell | Amherst | Agriculture and Manufactures Propositions and Grievances |
| Elbert H. Caldwell | Marshall | |
| Wyatt Cardwell | Charlotte | Enrolled Bills (Chair) Treasurer's Accounts |
| Samuel Carpenter | Alleghany | Claims |
| John Carroll | Grayson | Register's Office |
| William Carroll | Preston | Executive Expenditures |
| Augustus A. Chapman | Monroe | Courts of Justice Privileges and Elections |
| James S. Clarke | Surry | Executive Expenditures |
| William H. Clarke | Halifax | Finance Treasurer's Accounts |
| John Clayton | Monongalia | Clerk's Office |
| Clayton G. Coleman | Charles City and New Kent | Enrolled Bills First Auditor's Office |
| Raphael M. Conn | Shenandoah | Enrolled Bills Militia Laws |
| Robert B. Corbin | Caroline | Public Libraries |
| James H. Cox | Chesterfield | Penitentiary (Chair) Agriculture and Manufactures |
| Carter Crafford | Elizabeth City and Warwick | Armory |
| Thomas T. Cropper | Accomack | Armory |
| Oscar Minor Crutchfield | Spotyslvania | Roads and Internal Navigation (Chair) |
| Charles P. Dorman | Rockbridge | Finance (Chair) Public Libraries |
| Henry Erskine | Greenbrier | Agriculture and Manufactures Finance |
| William Etheridge | Norfolk County | Militia Laws |
| James Evans | Monongalia | Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Joshua Ewing | Lee | Schools and Colleges |
| William Fitzgerald | Nottoway | First Auditor's Office (Chair) Privileges and Elections |
| Alexander Fitzhugh | Stafford | Second Auditor's Office |
| Thomas H. Flood | Buckingham | Militia Laws |
| William S. Fontaine | King William | Propositions and Grievances |
| Thomas Fox | Campbell | Agriculture and Manufactures Armory |
| David Gibson | Hampshire | Agriculture and Manufactures Finance |
| Thomas Walker Gilmer | Albemarle | |
| William Osborne Goode | Mecklenburg | Schools and Colleges (Chair) |
| Samuel E. Goodson | Washington | Roads and Internal Navigation |
| John M. Gregory | James City, York, and Williamsburg | Courts of Justice Lunatic Asylums Schools and Colleges |
| Hiram Griever | Smyth | Armory |
| John Guerrant | Goochland | Clerk's Office |
| Samuel Hale | Franklin | Privileges and Elections Treasurer's Accounts |
| William Hamlett | Henry | Propositions and Grievances |
| Joseph Hannah | Botetourt | Claims |
| Henry T. Harrison | Loudoun | Agriculture and Manufactures Lunatic Asylums |
| Creed Haskins | Brunswick | Agriculture and Manufactures Propositions and Grievances |
| Henry G. Heath | Prince George | Claims |
| Joseph Hiden | Orange and Greene | First Auditor's Office |
| Harman Hiner | Pendleton | Claims |
| William D. Hodges | Nansemond | Courts of Justice Finance |
| John Howell | Floyd | |
| William B. Hudnall | Northumberland | Penitentiary |
| Edmund P. Hunter | Berkeley | Armory (Chair) Courts of Justice |
| Jacob J. Jackson | Braxton and Lewis | Propositions and Grievances |
| John J. Jackson | Wood | Register's Office (Chair) Courts of Justice |
| John Keen | Pittsylvania | Claims |
| Anthony Kennedy | Jefferson | Agriculture and Manufactures Schools and Colleges |
| Charles King | Giles and Mercer | Second Auditor's Office |
| William Kinney | Augusta | Finance (Chair) |
| George W. Kyle | Buckingham | |
| Anthony Lawson | Logan | Roads and Internal Navigation |
| George H. Lee | Harrison | Bonds of Public Officers Courts of Justice |
| Alfred Leyburn | Rockbridge | Lunatic Asylums (Chair) Schools and Colleges |
| Joseph Lipscomb | Louisa | Propositions and Grievances |
| William Lockridge | Bath | Register's Office |
| James K. Marshall | Fauquier | Agriculture and Manufactures Bonds of Public Officers |
| William Massie | Nelson | Claims Public Libraries |
| John F. May | Petersburg | Courts of Justice (Chair) |
| William McConnell | Ohio | Agriculture and Manufactures Schools and Colleges |
| Franklin McCue | Augusta | Militia Laws |
| John McMillan | Brooke | Armory |
| Sherwin McRae | Henrico | Propositions and Grievances Treasurer's Accounts |
| William Meredith | Brunswick | First Auditor's Office Schools and Colleges |
| Jacob Michaux | Powhatan | Claims |
| Thomas P. Mitchell | Bedford | Enrolled Bills Second Auditor's Office |
| Henry Myers | Morgan | Armory |
| Jacob Myers | Berkeley | Penitentiary |
| John Orgain | Lunenberg | Penitentiary |
| Barrett G. Payne | Fluvanna | Propositions and Grievances |
| John Powell | Fairfax | Claims |
| John J. Prince | Sussex | Clerk's Office |
| Charles Quillen | Scott | First Auditor's Office |
| Sanford J. Ramey | Loudoun | Propositions and Grievances |
| Daniel Ratcliffe | Prince William | Courts of Justice Public Libraries |
| Van B. Reynolds | Kanawha | Enrolled Bills Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Robert Ridley | Southampton | Executive Expenditures Public Libraries |
| Lawrence Roane | Essex | Bonds of Public Officers |
| William Roberts | Princess Anne | Claims |
| Wyndham Robertson | Richmond City | Executive Expenditures (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation Schools and Colleges |
| John Scott | Marshall | Clerk's Office |
| Robert E. Scott | Fauquier | Courts of Justice |
| William Seymour | Hardy | Bonds of Public Officers (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
| James C. Shipman | Rockingham | Claims |
| Arthur Smith | Isle of Wight | Propositions and Grievances (Chair) Finance |
| Edward H. Smith | Rockingham | Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Henry D. Smith | Russell | Armory |
| Nehemiah Smith | Mason and Jackson | Clerk's Office |
| Thomas Smith | Gloucester | Executive Expenditures |
| Henry Snider | Roanoke | First Auditor's Office |
| Valentine Wood Southall | Albemarle | Privileges and Elections (Chair) Courts of Justice |
| James C. Spotts | Tazewell | Second Auditor's Office |
| John Stanger | Wythe and Pulaski | Penitentiary Register's Office |
| John C. Staples | Patrick | Armory |
| James M. Stephenson | Tyler | Claims (Chair) Finance Privileges and Elections |
| Gerald B. Stuart | Augusta | Executive Expenditures Lunatic Asylums |
| Henry Sturm | Randolph | Armory |
| Benjamin Tallman | Pocahontas | Armory |
| Edward T. Tayloe | King George | Treasurer's Accounts (Chair) Privileges and Elections |
| William H. Tayloe | Lancaster and Richmond County | Armory Lunatic Asylums |
| John R. Taylor | Mathews and Middlesex | Clerk's Office (Chair) |
| Paul Taylor | Halifax | Propositions and Grievances |
| Solomon Thornburg | Cabell | Propositions and Grievances |
| Richard H. Toler | Campbell | Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Whitmell P. Tunstall | Pittsylvania | Public Libraries (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Nathaniel E. Venable | Prince Edward | Finance Schools and Colleges |
| John Wade | Franklin | Penitentiary |
| William Wade | Montgomery and Pulaski | Propositions and Grievances |
| William Walden | Rappahannock | Militia Laws |
| William G. Walker | Westmoreland | Schools and Colleges |
| Samuel Watts | Norfolk County | Militia Laws (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
| William L. White | Hanover | Armory |
| Thomas Whitworth | Dinwiddie | Lunatic Asylums Militia Laws |
| Allen Wilson | Cumberland | Agriculture and Manufactures (Chair) |
| Vincent Witcher | Pittsylvania | Claims (Chair) |
| Henry Wood | Amelia | Enrolled Bills Privileges and Elections |
| William C. Worthington | Jefferson | Bonds of Public Officers Courts of Justice |
| David P. Wright | King and Queen | Executive Expenditures |
| George T. Yerby | Northampton | Agriculture and Manufactures Enrolled Bills |
*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.