People QuickFactsSuffolkVirginiaPopulation, 2003 estimate 73,5157,386,330Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2003 15.4%4.3%Population, 2000 63,6777,078,515Population, percent…
(Encyclopedia) Yeardley, Sir GeorgeYeardley, Sir Georgeyärdˈlē [key], c.1587–1627, British colonial governor of Virginia (1618–21, 1626–27). He was shipwrecked (1609) in the Bermudas but managed to…
(Encyclopedia) Strachey, William, 1572–1621, English colonial historian; educated at Cambridge. In 1609 he sailed to Virginia with Sir Thomas Gates. A storm wrecked his ship in the Bermudas, and the…
(Encyclopedia) Warner, Mark Robert, 1954–, U.S. politician, b. Indianapolis, grad George Washington Univ. (B.A., 1977), Harvard Law School (J.D., 1980). After settling in Virginia and working as a…
(Encyclopedia) Randolph, Peyton, c.1721–1775, American political leader, first president of the Continental Congress, b. Williamsburg, Va. After a general education at the College of William and Mary…
People QuickFactsClifton Forge cityVirginiaPopulation, 2005 estimate X7,567,465Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005 NA6.9%Population, 2000 4,2897,078,515Persons under 5…
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(Encyclopedia) Quids, in U.S. political history, an extreme states' rights group of Jeffersonian Republicans led by John Randolph of Virginia. Feeling that Thomas Jefferson and James Madison had…
(Encyclopedia) Rogers, William Barton, 1804–82, American geologist and educator, b. Philadelphia, grad. William and Mary, 1822. He was professor of geology at William and Mary (1828–35) and at the…
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