The Virginia Conventions have been the assemblies of delegates elected for the purpose of establishing constitutions of fundamental law for the Commonwealth...

The Virginia Ratifying Convention (also historically referred to as the "Virginia Federal Convention") was a convention of 168 delegates from Virginia who...

Fifth Virginia Convention was a meeting of the Patriot legislature of Virginia held in Williamsburg from May 6 to July 5, 1776. This Convention declared...

National Conventions. These conventions are the presidential nominating conventions of the Democratic Party of the United States. Conventions whose nominees...

reassembled on their own and issued calls for the first of five Virginia Conventions. These conventions were essentially meetings of the House of Burgesses without...

by the Virginia Conventions and later the House of Delegates in 1776). Randolph also served as the president of the Third Virginia Convention in July...

following Conventions in other historical eras: Virginia Ratifying Convention, convention to reject or ratify the United States Constitution Virginia Constitutional...

The Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 was called in the state capital of Richmond to determine whether Virginia would secede from the United States...

of Virginia became a prominent part of the Confederacy when it joined during the American Civil War. As a Southern slave-holding state, Virginia held...

National Conventions. The quadrennial convention is the presidential nominating convention of the Republican Party of the United States. Note: Conventions whose...