Virginia's 1st congressional district

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Virginia's 1st congressional district
Population (2000) 643,514
Median income $50,257
Ethnic composition 76.1% White, 18.6% Black, 1.7% Asian, 3.0% Hispanic, 0.4% Native American, 0.4% other
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Virginia's first congressional district is a United States congressional district in the commonwealth of Virginia.

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It covers all or part of the following political subdivisions:

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The seat is currently held by Republican Rob Wittman.

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The Virginia First District started in 1788 covering the counties of Ohio, Monongalia, Harrison County, West Virginia, Frederick, Shenandoah County, Virginia, Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Randolph, and Harrison. [1] Of these only Shenandoah and Frederick Counties are in Virginia today, the rest are now part of West Virginia. The modern counties of Clarke, Warren and most of Page as well as the independent city of Winchester were included as part of Frederick and Shenandoah counties in 1788. In West Virginia all the current state north and east of a generalized line running from Wood County to Pocahontas County was in the congressional district. The one exception was that Pendleton County, West Virginia was in Virginia's 3rd congressional district.

In the redistribution which followed the 1850 census (in force 1853-1863), the First District comprised sixteen counties in eastern Virginia. The counties included (amongst others) Accomack, Essex, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, Mathews, Middlesex, New Kent, Richmond, Warwick and Westmoreland. In an 1862 Union special election three out of the sixteen counties in the Union district supplied returns.

A similar but smaller area than the pre-existing Union district comprised the Confederate First Congressional District of Virginia (used for the Confederate House of Representatives 1862-1865). This district included the eastern Virginia counties of Accomack, Essex, Gloucester, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northampton, Northumberland, Richmond and Westmoreland. [2]

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Representative Lived Party Term Note
District created: March 4, 1789
Alexander White (1738-1804) Pro-Administration March 4, 1789 - March 3, 1793 Retired
Robert Rutherford (1728-1803) Anti-Administration March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1795
Democratic-Republican March 4, 1795-March 3, 1797 Defeated
Daniel Morgan (1736-1802) Federalist March 4, 1797 - March 3, 1799 Retired
Robert Page (1765-1840) Federalist March 4, 1799 - March 3, 1801 Retired
John Smith (1750-1836) Democratic-Republican March 4, 1801 - March 3, 1803 Re-elected in VA-3
John G. Jackson (1777-1825) Democratic-Republican March 4, 1803 - September 28, 1810 Resigned due to injury
Vacant September 29, 1810 - December 20, 1810 Special election
William McKinley Democratic-Republican December 21, 1810 - March 3, 1811 Defeated
Thomas Wilson (1765-1826) Federalist March 4, 1811 - March 3, 1813 Defeated
John G. Jackson
(2nd time)		 (1777-1825) Democratic-Republican March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1817 Retired
James Pindall (1783-1825) Federalist March 4, 1817 - July 26, 1820 Resigned
Vacant July 27, 1820 - October 22, 1820 Special election
Edward B. Jackson (1793-1826) Democratic-Republican October 23, 1820 - March 3, 1823 Retired
Thomas Newton, Jr. (1768-1847) Adams-Clay Republican March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1825
Adams Republican March 4, 1825 - March 3, 1829
National Republican March 4, 1829 – March 9, 1830 Election successfully contested
George Loyall (1789-1868) Jacksonian March 9, 1830 - March 3, 1831 Defeated
Thomas Newton, Jr.
(2nd time)		 (1768-1847) National Republican March 4, 1831 - March 3, 1833 Retired
George Loyall
(2nd time)		 (1789-1868) Democratic March 4, 1833 - March 3, 1837 Retired
Francis Mallory (1807-1860) Whig March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1839 Defeated
Joel Holleman (1799-1844) Democratic March 4, 1839 - December 1, 1840 Resigned
Vacant December 2, 1840 - December 27, 1840 Special election December 28, 1840
Francis Mallory
(2nd time)		 (1807-1860) Whig December 28, 1840 - March 3, 1843 Retired
Archibald Atkinson (1792-1872) Democratic March 4, 1843 - March 3, 1849 Retired
John S. Millson (1808-1874) Democratic March 4, 1849 - March 3, 1853 Re-elected in VA-2
Thomas H. Bayly (1810-1856) Democratic March 4, 1853 - June 23, 1856 Died in office
Vacant June 24, 1856 - November 31, 1856 Special election November 4, 1856
Muscoe R. H. Garnett (1821-1864) Democratic December 1, 1856 - March 3, 1861 Retired
Representation during the Civil War
Union District
Vacant March 4, 1861 - March 15, 1862 Special election March 15, 1862
Joseph E. Segar (1804-1880) Unionist March 16, 1862 - March 3, 1863 Declared un-entitled to seat
Vacant March 4, 1863 - March 18, 1865
Confederate District
Muscoe R. H. Garnett (1821-1864) Indepedent February 18, 1862 - February 14, 1864 Died in office
Vacant February 14, 1864 - February 17, 1864
Robert L. Montague (1829-1880) Independent February 18, 1864 - March 18, 1865 C.S.A. House adjourned
Restoration of the Union
Representation inactive March 18, 1865 - January 25, 1870 Readmission to the Union
Vacant January 26, 1870 - January 30, 1870 Representative seated
Richard S. Ayer (1829-1896) Republican January 31, 1870 - March 3, 1871 Retired
John Critcher (1820-1901) Democratic March 4, 1871 - March 3, 1873 Retired
James B. Sener (1837-1903) Republican March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1875 Defeated
Beverly B. Douglas (1822-1878) Democratic March 4, 1875 - December 22, 1878 Died in office
Vacant December 23, 1878 - January 22, 1879 Special election January 23, 1879
Richard L. T. Beale (1819-1893) Democratic January 23, 1879 - March 3, 1881 Retired
George T. Garrison (1835-1889) Democratic March 4, 1881 - March 3, 1883 Defeated
Robert M. Mayo (1836-1896) Readjuster March 4, 1883 - March 20, 1884 Election successfully contested
George T. Garrison
(2nd time)		 (1835-1889) Democratic March 20, 1884 - March 3, 1885 Retired
Thomas Croxton (1822-1903) Democratic March 4, 1885 - March 3, 1887 Defeated
Thomas H. B. Browne (1844-1922) Republican March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1891 Defeated
William A. Jones (1849-1918) Democratic March 4, 1891 - April 17, 1918 Died in office
Vacant April 18 - July 1, 1918 Special election July 2, 1918
S. Otis Bland (1872-1950) Democratic July 2, 1918 - March 3, 1933 Re-elected in VA-AL
State using at-large format March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1935
S. Otis Bland
(2nd time)		 (1872-1950) Democratic January 3, 1935 - February 16, 1950 Died in office
Vacant February 16, 1950 - May 2, 1950 Special election May 2, 1950
Edward J. Robeson, Jr. (1890-1966) Democratic May 2, 1950 - January 3, 1959 Defeated
Thomas N. Downing (1919-2001) Democratic January 3, 1959 - January 3, 1977 Retired
Paul S. Trible, Jr. (b. 1946) Republican January 3, 1977 - January 3, 1983 Elected to the Senate
Herbert H. Bateman (1928-2000) Republican January 3, 1983 - September 11, 2000 Died in office
Vacant September 11, 2000 - January 3, 2001
Jo Ann Davis (1950-2007) Republican January 3, 2001 - October 6, 2007 Died in office
Vacant October 6, 2007 - December 13, 2007 Special election December 11, 2007
Robert J. Wittman (b. 1959) Republican December 13, 2007 - Current

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Parsons, Stanley B., William W. Beach and Dan Hermann. United States Congresional Districts, 1788-1841 (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1978) p. 7
  2. ^ Martis, Kenneth C. The Historical Atlas of the Congresses of the Confederate States of America: 1861-1865 (Simon and Schuster, 1994)
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