PAGE, John

PAGE, John, (brother of Mann Page), a Representative from Virginia; born at "Rosewell," Gloucester County, Va., April 17, 1743; graduated from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1763; served under Washington in an expedition against the French and Indians; delegate to the Virginia state constitutional convention in 1776; lieutenant governor of Virginia, 1776-1779; raised a regiment of militia from Gloucester County; served in the Revolutionary War as a colonel in the Continental Army; member of the Virginia state house of delegates, 1781-1783 and 1785-1788; elected as an Anti-Administration candidate to the First and to the two succeeding Congresses, and reelected as a Democratic Republican to the Fourth Congress (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1797); again a member of the Virginia state house of delegates in 1797, 1798, 1800; and 1801; governor of Virginia, 1802-1805; appointed United States commissioner of loans for Virginia and held office until his death in Richmond, Va., October 11, 1808; interment in St. John's Churchyard.

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