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Virginia House Of Delegates: Elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1777, Harrison served as its speaker from 1778 to 1781. He was governor of the state for three terms (1781-1784) and then returned to the House of Delegates. In the 1788 Virginia ratifying convention he opposed the U. S. Constitution because it lacked a bill of rights. He died at Berkeley on April 24, 1791. His third son, William Henry Harrison, and his great-grandson, Benjamin, both became presidents of the United States.
Virginia has a bicameral legislature, with a Senate comprising 40 members who serve 4-year terms and a House of Delegates with 100 members who serve 2-year terms. Members are elected in odd-numbered years and meet during the following January for a session of 60 days, extendible by a three-fifths vote of both houses, whose members then serve without pay. The governor may call special sessions. The legislature is aided in its work by a division for statutory research and the drafting of bills and by an advisory council which studies legislation during the intersession.
SIR JOHN RANDOLPH : b. Henrico County, Va., c. 1693; d. March 2, 1737. The son of William Randolph, he was educated at the College of William and Mary and at Gray's Inn, London, being called to the bar in 1717. Probably the most brilliant contemporary Virginia lawyer, he served as attorney general (1726-1727), acting clerk of the Council (1727), and clerk of the House of Burgesses (1718-1734), a position he resigned when assured of election as speaker of the House and treasurer of Virginia in 1734.
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