History of Gloucester County Virginia United States of America

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John Page, governor of Virginia, was born at "Rosewell," Gloucester county, Va., April 17, 1744; son of Mann and Mary Mason (Selden) Page; grandson of Mann (1691-1730) and Judith (Carter) Page; great-grandson of Matthew Page (1659-1703), and great2-grandson of John (1627-1692) and Alice (Luckin) Page. He was graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1763, and was married about 1765 to Frances Burwell. He was a member of the house of burgesses; of the colonial council, and the committee of safety, contributing liberally to the prosecution of the Revolutionary war; a delegate to the state constitutional convention of July, 1776; lieutenant-governor of the commonwealth; a representative from the seventh district of Virginia in the 1st-4th congresses, 1789-97; a Jefferson elector in 1801, and governor of Virginia, succeeding James Monroe, 1802-05. Being constitutionally ineligible for re-election in 1805 he was succeeded by William H. Cabell. He was U.S. commissioner of loans for Virginia by appointment of President Jefferson, 1805-08; and a visitor to the College of William and Mary, appointed in 1776. At one time he was urged to take orders in the church, his friends desiring that he should become the first bishop of Virginia. He is the author of: Addresses to the People (1796 and 1799). He died in Richmond, Va., Oct. 11, 1808.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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