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Va. General Assembly reaches highest women representation in history | WSET - 0 views

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  • sequeiraquema on 06 Nov 19
     
    Election Day concluded and women now have the biggest representation in the General Assembly in the history of Virginia politics. Four women gained seats and pushed the total of female-held seats to 30. The Senate added two more female representatives.
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Marking the End of Civil War, and Slavery - Capital News Service - 0 views

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    After four years of bloody fighting, the war that had torn apart the United States and Virginia finally reached its conclusion in the commonwealth. In one of the most eventful and fateful months in American history, April 1865 would see the fall of Richmond to Union troops, Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the end of the Confederacy, the Civil War and slavery.
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