Monday, July 30, 2007
This Day in American History
On this day in 1619, more than a year before the crazy Pilgrims set foot on Cape Cod, the House of Burgesses, the first representative assembly in America, convened in Jamestown, Virginia. My dad, by way of personal history, was elected to this body shortly after WWII, and he was one of the youngest to be so elected. He told me that the Democrats in that body, in the late 1940s, had to caucus in the rather large assembly hall, while the Republicans used to caucus in his hotel room. Shoe's kinda on the other foot now.
Labels: Virginia History
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 6:46 AM 
