1840-1841 Session Information
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- Start Date: Dec 1 1840
- End Date: Mar 22 1841
- Notes: Session: December 1, 1840 to March 22, 1841
- Speaker:
Valentine Wood Southall
- Clerk:
George Wythe Munford
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Special Sessions:
| Name | Locality | Committees |
|---|---|---|
| Edward J. Armstrong | Harrison | First Auditor's Office Schools and Colleges |
| St. Clair Ballard | Logan | Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Robert A. Banks | Madison | |
| Thomas H. Bayly | Accomack | Courts of Justice Militia Laws |
| Lewis Beard | Loudoun | Second Auditor's Office (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
| James Bevins | Scott | Agriculture and Manufactures |
| John Booton | Madison | Claims |
| Francis W. Boyd | Mecklenburg | First Auditor's Office |
| Edmund Broadus | Culpeper | Bonds of Public Officers Finance |
| Alexander Brown | Nelson | Claims Lunatic Asylums |
| William G. Brown | Preston | Executive Expenditures |
| Andrew Bryan | Mason and Jackson | Treasurer's Accounts |
| Peter C. Buffington | Cabell | |
| Samuel D. Burke | Prince Edward | Schools and Colleges |
| George Burner | Pocahontas | Register's Office |
| Nathaniel Burwell | Clarke and Warren | Agriculture and Manufactures |
| William M. Burwell | Bedford | Public Library Schools and Colleges |
| Augustine C. Butts | Greensville | Register's Office (Chair) Privileges and Elections |
| Andrew H. Byrd | Bath | Penitentiary |
| Edward A. Cabell | Amherst | First Auditor's Office (Chair) Propositions and Grievances |
| Elbert H. Caldwell | Marshall | Courts of Justice |
| Wyatt Cardwell | Charlotte | Enrolled Bills (Chair) Agriculture and Manufactures |
| Samuel Carpenter | Alleghany | Claims |
| James Cather | Frederick | |
| Augustus A. Chapman | Monroe | Courts of Justice Privileges and Elections |
| John D. Cheatham | Patrick | Armory |
| William H. Clarke | Halifax | Banks Finance Privileges and Elections |
| John Clayton | Monongalia | Penitentiary |
| Clayton G. Coleman | Charles City and New Kent | Enrolled Bills Schools and Colleges |
| Isaac A. Coles | Albemarle | Militia Laws (Chair) Schools and Colleges |
| Samuel Colton | Elizabeth City and Warwick | Lunatic Asylums |
| Raphael M. Conn | Shenandoah | Agriculture and Manufactures Enrolled Bills Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Robert B. Corbin | Caroline | Public Library |
| George Cowan | Russell | Penitentiary |
| James H. Cox | Chesterfield | Penitentiary (Chair) Bonds of Public Officers Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Thomas T. Cropper | Accomack | Armory (Chair) Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Oscar Minor Crutchfield | Spotyslvania | Banks (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation (Chair) |
| Benjamin F. Dabney | King William | Courts of Justice |
| William B. Davis | King and Queen | Executive Expenditures |
| Harvey Deskins | Floyd | Treasurer's Accounts |
| John H. Dey | Princess Anne | Claims |
| Samuel Diggs | Mathews and Middlesex | Armory |
| Andrew Donnelly Jr. | Kanawha | Treasurer's Accounts |
| Charles P. Dorman | Rockbridge | Finance (Chair) Public Library |
| Samuel Elliott | Randolph | Clerk's Office |
| Henry Erskine | Greenbrier | Trade and the Mechanic Arts (Chair) Agriculture and Manufactures Finance |
| William Etheridge | Norfolk County | Militia Laws Roads and Internal Navigation |
| George Fitzgerald | Nottoway | Register's Office |
| Alexander Fitzhugh | Stafford | Penitentiary Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Thomas H. Flood | Buckingham | Militia Laws |
| Tillotson Fryatt | Berkeley | Penitentiary |
| Andrew S. Fulton | Wythe and Pulaski | Finance |
| William Osborne Goode | Mecklenburg | Schools and Colleges (Chair) Banks Privileges and Elections |
| Samuel E. Goodson | Washington | Roads and Internal Navigation Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| John M. Gregory | James City, York, and Williamsburg | Lunatic Asylums (Chair) Courts of Justice Schools and Colleges |
| John Guerrant | Goochland | Clerk's Office |
| Benjamin F. Habern | Lee | Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Samuel Hale | Franklin | Privileges and Elections |
| William Hamlett | Henry | Propositions and Grievances |
| Joseph Hannah | Botetourt | Claims |
| Joshua M. Harrell | Nansemond | Propositions and Grievances |
| Henry T. Harrison | Loudoun | Agriculture and Manufactures Register's Office |
| Creed Haskins | Brunswick | Agriculture and Manufactures |
| Henry G. Heath | Prince George | Claims |
| Joseph Hiden | Orange and Greene | First Auditor's Office |
| Harman Hiner | Pendleton | Agriculture and Manufactures Claims |
| John Z. Holladay | Louisa | |
| Robert Irvine | Campbell | Enrolled Bills Treasurer's Accounts |
| Henry P. Irving | Cumberland | Courts of Justice |
| Jacob J. Jackson | Braxton and Lewis | Propositions and Grievances |
| Oscar F. Johnston | Giles and Mercer | Second Auditor's Office |
| William Jones | Brooke | Armory |
| John Keen | Pittsylvania | Claims Penitentiary |
| George W. Kyle | Buckingham | Treasurer's Accounts |
| James H. Langhorne | Norfolk County | Courts of Justice Lunatic Asylums Schools and Colleges |
| George H. Lee | Harrison | Bonds of Public Officers Courts of Justice |
| Alfred Leyburn | Rockbridge | Agriculture and Manufactures (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation Schools and Colleges |
| James K. Marshall | Fauquier | Agriculture and Manufactures Bonds of Public Officers |
| Robert T. Marshall | Lunenberg | Armory |
| John F. May | Petersburg | Courts of Justice (Chair) Banks |
| William McConnell | Ohio | Agriculture and Manufactures Banks Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Franklin McCue | Augusta | Militia Laws |
| Addison McLaughlin | Fayette and Nicholas | Claims |
| John McPherson | Page | Clerk's Office |
| Sherwin McRae | Henrico | Bonds of Public Officers Propositions and Grievances Treasurer's Accounts |
| William Meredith | Brunswick | First Auditor's Office Schools and Colleges |
| Thomas P. Mitchell | Bedford | Enrolled Bills Second Auditor's Office |
| John Mullen | Hardy | Agriculture and Manufactures |
| William O'Connell | Ohio | |
| William Odell | Hampshire | Second Auditor's Office Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Cromwell Orrick | Morgan | Register's Office |
| Barrett G. Payne | Fluvanna | Propositions and Grievances Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| George N.N. Porter | Powhatan | Claims |
| John J. Prince | Sussex | Agriculture and Manufactures |
| Sanford J. Ramey | Loudoun | Enrolled Bills Propositions and Grievances |
| Daniel Ratcliffe | Prince William | Clerk's Office (Chair) Public Library |
| Robert Ridley | Southampton | Banks Courts of Justice Executive Expenditures Public Library |
| Lawrence Roane | Essex | Lunatic Asylums Second Auditor's Office |
| Wyndham Robertson | Richmond City | Executive Expenditures (Chair) Banks Roads and Internal Navigation Schools and Colleges |
| Edward Sangster | Fairfax | |
| Robert E. Scott | Fauquier | Privileges and Elections (Chair) Courts of Justice |
| James C. Shipman | Rockingham | Claims |
| Arthur Smith | Isle of Wight | Propositions and Grievances (Chair) Banks Finance |
| Edward H. Smith | Rockingham | Lunatic Asylums Roads and Internal Navigation |
| James M. Smith | Northumberland | Propositions and Grievances |
| Thomas Smith | Gloucester | Executive Expenditures |
| Henry Snider | Roanoke | Clerk's Office Trade and the Mechanic Arts |
| Valentine Wood Southall | Albemarle | |
| James C. Spotts | Tazewell | Second Auditor's Office |
| George B. Stephenson | Jefferson | Bonds of Public Officers |
| James M. Stephenson | Tyler | Claims (Chair) Finance Privileges and Elections |
| John Stephenson | Wood | Roads and Internal Navigation |
| James French Strother | Rappahannock | Privileges and Elections |
| Gerald B. Stuart | Augusta | Executive Expenditures Lunatic Asylums |
| Caleb Tanzey | Monongalia | Lunatic Asylums |
| Thomas M. Tate | Smyth | Armory |
| Edward T. Tayloe | King George | Privileges and Elections Public Library |
| William H. Tayloe | Lancaster and Richmond County | Armory Claims |
| Paul Taylor | Halifax | Propositions and Grievances |
| Robert E. Taylor | Norfolk Borough | Banks Courts of Justice |
| Charles Thompson | Hanover | Lunatic Asylums |
| Richard H. Toler | Campbell | Banks Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Whitmell P. Tunstall | Pittsylvania | Public Library (Chair) Roads and Internal Navigation |
| William Vance | Hampshire | Lunatic Asylums Roads and Internal Navigation |
| Jacob Vandoren | Berkeley | Second Auditor's Office |
| Alfred J. Vaughan | Dinwiddie | Clerk's Office |
| William Wade | Montgomery and Pulaski | Propositions and Grievances |
| William G. Walker | Westmoreland | Militia Laws |
| Dawson Warren | Surry | Agriculture and Manufactures Executive Expenditures |
| John F. Wiley | Amelia | Enrolled Bills Militia Laws |
| William Wilkinson | Grayson | Register's Office |
| Samuel C. Williams | Shenandoah | Finance |
| William Wood | Frederick | Banks First Auditor's Office |
| Wyley P. Woods | Franklin | First Auditor's Office |
| William C. Worthington | Jefferson | Bonds of Public Officers (Chair) Courts of Justice |
| George T. Yerby | Northampton | Treasurer's Accounts (Chair) Register's Office |
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