John Page (Virginia politician)

John Page (Virginia politician)

Infobox Congressman
name= John Page



state= Virginia
district= 7th & 12th
term= March 4 1789March 3 1793 (7th)
March 4 1793March 3 1797
preceded= None
succeeded= Abraham B. Venable (1793)
Thomas Evans
order2 = 13th Governor of Virginia
term_start2 = 1802
term_end2 = 1805
predecessor2 = James Monroe
successor2 = William H. Cabell
date of birth= April 17 1744
place of birth= Gloucester County, Virginia
date of death= October 11 1808
place of death= Richmond, Virginia
spouse=
profession=
religion=
party= Democratic-Republican

John Page (April 17 1744ndash October 11 1808) was a figure in early United States history. He served in the U.S. Congress and as Governor of Virginia.

Page was born and lived at Rosewell Plantation in Gloucester County. His great grandfather was Colonel John Page (1628-1692), an English merchant from Middlesex who emigrated to Virginia with his wife Alice Lucken Page and settled in Middle Plantation. He was the brother of Mann Page III.

John Page was graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1763, where he was a friend and the closest college classmate of Thomas Jefferson, having exchanged a great deal of correspondence. He then served under George Washington in an expedition during the French and Indian War. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1776. He also served during the American Revolutionary War as an officer in the Virginia state militia, raising a regiment from Gloucester County and supplementing it with personal funds. During that war, he attained the rank of colonel.

Page was also involved in politics. He became the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and served 1776-1779. He was then a member of the Virginia House of Delegates 1781-1783 and 1785 - 1788. Page was elected to the First United States Congress and reelected to the Second and Third, and to the Fourth as a Republican. Overall, he was Congressman from March 4 1789 to March 3 1797.

After his terms in Congress, he was again a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1797, 1798, 1800, and 1801. He became the Governor of Virginia in 1802 and served to 1805. After being governor, he was appointed United States commissioner of loans for Virginia and held office until his death in Richmond, Virginia on October 11, 1808.

He was interred in St. John's Churchyard in Richmond.

Governor Page was quoted by George W. Bush in his inaugural address in 2001. Writing to his friend Jefferson shortly after the Declaration of Independence was published, Page said of the Declaration and the Revolution: "We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?" [Bobrick, Benson: "Angel in the Whirlwind". Simon and Schuster, 1997]

Legacy

*The Page family was one of the First Families of Virginia, which included Colonel John Page. Governor John Page, his brother Mann Page, U.S. Ambassador to Italy Thomas Nelson Page, and Virginian Railway builder William Nelson Page.

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