109th Virginia General Assembly
The 109th Virginia General Assembly was the meeting of the legislative branch of the Virginia state government from 1916 to 1918, after the 1915 Virginia state elections, 1915 state elections. It convened in Richmond, Virginia, Richmond for one session, which started on January 12, 1916, and ended on March 18, 1916. Background The 1916 General Assembly took place during the latter half of Henry Carter Stuart's governorship. It was the last full session during which James Taylor Ellyson, J. Taylor Ellyson served as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, lieutenant governor and president of the state senate; as of 2013, he is the only person in Virginia history to have served three terms in that office. On November 1, 1916, seven months after the body adjourned, statewide prohibition went into effect. Senator G. Walter Mapp and temperance advocate James Cannon, Jr. (not to be confused with Senator James E. Cannon) drafted the final bill after voters endorsed a referendum in September 1914. ...
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Virginia State Capitol
The Virginia State Capitol is the seat of state government of the Commonwealth of Virginia, located in Richmond, the third capital city of the U.S. state of Virginia. (The first two were Jamestown and Williamsburg.) It houses the oldest elected legislative body in North America, the Virginia General Assembly, first established as the House of Burgesses in 1619. The Capitol was conceived of by Thomas Jefferson and Charles-Louis Clérisseau in France, based on the Maison Carrée in Nîmes. Construction began in 1785 and was completed in 1788. The current Capitol is the eighth built to serve as Virginia's statehouse, primarily due to fires during the Colonial period. In the early 20th century, two wings were added, leading to its present appearance. In 1960, it was designated a National Historic Landmark. History Colonial precursors in Jamestown and Williamsburg During the American Colonial period, Virginia's first capital was Jamestown, where the first legislative body, the ...
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