List of United States Representatives from Virginia
This list lists all the politicians who have belonged to the House of Representatives of the United States for the state of Virginia since 1799. The former British colony was represented in the first and second Congress each with ten deputies in the, which meets at this time in Philadelphia chamber of parliament, one seat was it attributable to the Kentucky County, from 1792 was the state of Kentucky. After various adjustments, due to population censuses, the number of deputies increased temporarily at up to 23; later they went back to 13. During the Civil War Virginia began by only five MPs from standing loyal to the Union territories of the country from which then in 1863 the state of West Virginia was created; Virginia was then no longer represented by the year 1870 in the House of Representatives. Pending the outcome of Reconstruction in 1873, three of the eleven official seats remained vacant. After that, the number of deputies moved between nine and ten, before the country as the election of 1992 was awarded another seat, so to this day eleven politicians from Virginia to the lower house of Congress sit.
Was usually chosen separately for electoral districts. Only in 1882, the tenth state mandate far ( " at-large " ) was issued; In 1932, once even the entire state congressional widely held.
With James Madison and John Tyler were two later U.S. presidents for Virginia in the House of Representatives. The State also presented with Philip Pendleton Barbour, Andrew Stevenson, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter and John Winston Jones four Speaker of the House.