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G. Alvin Massenburg

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Massenburg first entered the Virginia House of Delegates in 1926. In January of the same year he introduced a bill that required any public area to be segregated by race. Passing the house 63-3 then the senate 30-5 this would become one of the strongest segregation legislation in the country. He
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when he became speaker, and served until becoming speaker himself. By 1940 he had become chair of the Privileges and Elections committee. He succeeded
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Massenburg died in Hampton November 25, 1968. He was interred in the cemetery of
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to Virginius and Virginia Massenburg. He left high school after two years for an
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Jamerson, Bruce F., Clerk of the House of Delegates, supervising (2007).
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Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1776-2007
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Democratic Party members of the Virginia House of Delegates
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became Democratic floor leader from 1936, succeeding
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as Speaker in 1947, after Stanley's election to the
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He married Carrie Wood of Hampton October 19, 1918.
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Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates
Thomas B. Stanley
E. Blackburn Moore
Virginia House of Delegates
Elizabeth City
Hampton
Harry R. Houston
Victor P. Wilson
Hampton
Virginia
U.S.
Democratic
Maritime pilot

United States
United States Coast Guard
Captain
U.S. Coast Guard Reserve
American politician
Democrat
Virginia House of Delegates
Speaker
Hampton, Virginia
electrical
engineering apprenticeship
maritime pilot
Hampton Roads
Chesapeake Bay
United States Coast Guard Reserve

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