E. Almer Ames Jr.
Edward Almer Ames Jr. (January 22, 1903 – May 19, 1987) was a Virginia lawyer and member of the Virginia General Assembly representing Virginia's Eastern Shore of Virginia, Eastern shore between 1956 and 1968. A member of the Byrd Organization, Ames was also a member of the new legislative John B. BoatwBoatwright Committee which investigated the NAACP as part of the Massive Resistance to racial integration vowed by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd after the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education. Early and family life Ames was borne in Onley, Virginia in January 1903 to Edward Almer Ames (1856-1939) and his wife Lena E. Trower (1871-1952). He had an elder brother Floyd (1896-1972) and sister Margaret (b. 1899), as well as a younger sister Ethel (1909-2003). Almer Ames attended Randolph-Macon College, and joined Phi Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa before graduating with a B.A. degree. He then attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia and won elect ...
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Virginia Senate, District 1
Virginia's 1st Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Senate of Virginia. It has been represented by Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Monty Mason since his victory in a 2016 special election following the death of fellow Democrat John Miller (Virginia politician), John Miller. Geography District 1 is located in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area in southeastern Virginia, including all of Williamsburg, Virginia, Williamsburg and parts of Hampton, Virginia, Hampton, Newport News, Virginia, Newport News, Suffolk, Virginia, Suffolk, James City County, Virginia, James City County, and York County, Virginia, York County. The district overlaps with Virginia's Virginia's 1st congressional district, 1st, Virginia's 2nd congressional district, 2nd, and Virginia's 3rd congressional district, 3rd congressional districts, and with the Virginia's 76th House of Delegates district, 76th, Virginia's 92nd House of Delegates district, 92nd, Virginia's 93rd House of Delegates distri ...
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