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<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>A New Nation Votes</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/application-73b19ca1b3dd8595df79f6ac6deeaeab2ed20b697191b36f65005e72ec9eb691.css" media="all" /> <script src="/assets/application-2d04b0a59d5982f02065c503d55e97660e4e1e3662dff894903edb1bcb4280cf.js"></script>  <meta name="csrf-param" content="authenticity_token" /> <meta name="csrf-token" content="TzLEx6WBZw0Xjpm2Hxoef1dPmPNr-WmGTl5_3hNvuG9RLzF-RnsbNl2hbZvfKiQ2rl--fE34N-pK4UDbs-A6oQ" /> <script type="text/javascript"> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-38431398-3', 'auto'); </script> </head> <body> <div id="main-ballot"><p/></div> <div id="main-header"> <div id="main-header-upper"> <div id="main-logo"><h1><a href="/"><img alt="A New Nation Votes" src="/assets/logo-8bdccc9bbb1418600011d761a8f7c3d25b1d1ef3d40c2f15a53a2e2033f08e24.gif" /></a></h1></div> </div> <div id="main-header-lower"> <div id="main-menu" role="navigation"> <ul> <li><a href="/"><img class="menu-sep" alt="Home" src="/assets/menu_home-571aad481269d7cd820a58e853286ed449877b9e8c1e096f9359d0b2e87e5ef9.gif" /></a></li> <li><a href="/about.html"><img src="/assets/menu_about.gif" alt="About" class="menu-sep"/></a></li> <li><a href="/help.html"><img src="/assets/menu_help.gif" alt="Help" class="menu-sep"/></a></li> <li><a href="/contact.html"><img src="/assets/menu_contact.gif" alt="Contact"/></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div id="ajax-modal" class="modal fade" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="modal menu" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog"> <div class="modal-content"> </div> </div> </div> <div id="container"> <div xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" id="content" role="main"> <style> .label { color: #428bca } </style> <div id="document" class="blacklight-election-record"> <nav> <a href="/">< new search</a> </nav> <div id="doc_1r66j2650"> <h1 itemprop="name">Virginia 1798 Speaker of the House</h1> <div class="details"> <dl class="defList"> <dt>Office:</dt> <dd>Speaker of the House (State)</dd> <dt>Title:</dt> <dd>Speaker of the House</dd> <dt>Jurisdiction:</dt> <dd>State</dd> </dl> <div class="accordion" id="accordion2"> <div class="accordion-group"> <div class="accordion-heading"> <a class="accordian-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapseOne">View more information</a> </div> <div id="collapseOne" class="accordion-body collapse"> <div class="accordion-inner"> <dl class="defList"> <dt>Label:</dt> <dd>Virginia 1798 Speaker of the House</dd> <dt>Date:</dt> <dd>1798</dd> <dt>State:</dt> <dd>Virginia</dd> <dt>Type:</dt> <dd>Legislative</dd> <dt>Iteration:</dt> <dd>First Ballot</dd> <dt>Office/Role:</dt> <dd>Speaker of the House/Speaker of the House</dd> <dt>Candidates:</dt> <dd>John Wise, Wilson Cary Nicholas</dd> </dl> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="election-results-table" cellspacing="0"><thead><tr class="candidate-row"><th class="row-label">Candidates: </th><th><a href="/catalog/WJ0992/track">John Wise</a><a href="#note_1" class="link4">[1]</a></th><th><a href="/catalog/NW0043/track">Wilson Cary Nicholas</a></th></tr><tr class="affiliation-row"><th class="row-label">Affiliation:</th><td></td><td></td></tr><tr class="overview-row"><th>Final Result: </th><td class="vote">73</td><td class="vote">57</td></tr></thead> <tr class="sub-unit-row0 text8"><th class="sub-unit-label0"><span class="unit_name">House of Delegates</span><a href="#note_2" class="link4">[2]</a></th><td class="vote">73</td><td class="vote">57</td></tr> </table> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="electionNotes"><h2>Notes:</h2><div class="footnote"><a id="note_1" class="label">[1]</a><span class="data">Elected.</span></div><div class="footnote"><a id="note_2" class="label">[2]</a><span class="data">"Yesterday the General Assembly of this Commonwealth met at the Capitol in this city. -- John Wise was chosen Speaker and Mr. John Stewart Clerk. The votes for Speaker stood as follows:... Majority for J. Wise, Esq. 16." The Virginia Argus (Richmond, VA). December 4, 1798.</span></div></div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="electionReferences"><h2>References:</h2><div class="reference-citation">The Virginia Argus (Richmond, VA). December 4, 1798.</div><div class="reference-citation">Leonard, Cynthia Miller, ed. The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619 - January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members. Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1978.</div></div> <div id="page_images"> <h2>Page Images</h2> <figure class="page-image"> <img alt="handwritten notes" src="https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/page_images/0k225d930%2Ffiles%2Ff1614610-2c35-4bbb-bc89-f7f5587e10ca/full/400,/0/default.jpg" /> <figcaption> Phil's original notebook pages that were used to compile this election. These notes are considered a draft of the electronic version. Therefore, the numbers may not match. To verify numbers you will need to check the original sources cited. Some original source material is available at the <a href="http://www.americanantiquarian.org">American Antiquarian Society</a>). </figcaption> </figure> </div> <p id="record-message">These election records were released on 11 January 2012. Versions numbers are assigned by state. Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia are complete and are in Version 1.0. All other states are in a Beta version. 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