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Thomas Jefferson
president of the United States from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
James Monroe
president of the United States from 1817 to 1825 (1758–1831)
John Tyler
president of the United States from 1841 to 1845

John Marshall
chief justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835, (1755-1835)
Patrick Henry
American Founding Father, orator and politician (1736 – 1799)

Edmund Randolph
American attorney (1753-1813)
John Warner
American lawyer and politician (1927–2021)
George Allen
American politician (born 1952)
Jubal Early
lawyer, politician, and general of the Confederate States Army (1816-1894)
Terry McAuliffe
American businessman and politician
Abel P. Upshur
lawyer and politician (1790-1844)
Peyton Randolph
president of the first Continental Congress (1721-1775)
John Breckinridge
American politician (1760–1806)
James Barbour
American statesman and orator (1775-1842)

John Dean
American lawyer, politician
James Seddon
American lawyer and politician (1815-1880)
Robert M. T. Hunter
American lawyer and politician (1809-1887)
John B. Floyd
American politician (1806-1863)
Bushrod Washington
U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1798 to 1829
Henry A. Wise
United States Congressman and governor of Virginia (1806-1876)
Douglas Wilder
American politician
Chuck Robb
American politician and United States Marine
Frank Wolf
American politician
James L. Kemper
Confederate Army general (1823-1895)
Jennifer Wexton
American politician and lawyer
John S. Mosby
Confederate Army officer (1833-1916)
Barbara Comstock
former U.S. Representative from Virginia
John W. Johnston
American lawyer and politician from Abingdon, Virginia
Richard Coke
American politician (1829-1897)
Claude A. Swanson
American lawyer and politician (1862–1939)
Morgan Griffith
U.S.A Representative from Virginia
Mark Levin
American lawyer, radio and television personality
John Y. Mason
American politician (1799-1859)

Steve Cowper
Governor of Alaska from 1986 to 1990
Ben Cline
American politician in Virginia (born 1972)
Randy Forbes
American politician
John Garland Pollard
American politician (1871-1937)
Bobby Scott
U.S. Representative from Virginia
Bob Goodlatte
American politician (born 1952)
Robert Hurt
American politician in Virginia (born 1969)

Justin Fairfax
Justin Edward Fairfax was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 41st lieutenant governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second African American to be elected to statewide office in Virginia, after Douglas Wilder. In 2019, he faced sexual assault allegations dating to 2000 and 2004, resulting in his departure from his law firm and calls for his resignation as lieutenant governor. He served out the remainder of his term.
Littleton Waller Tazewell
American politician (1774-1860)
Jennifer McClellan
American politician in Virginia (born 1972)
Gerald L. Baliles
Governor of Virginia (1940-2019)
John J. Beckley
Librarian of Congress (1757-1807)
William Cabell Rives
American politician (1793–1868)
William Grayson
American politician (1736-1790)
George Wythe Randolph
Confederate Army general, grandson of Thomas Jefferson (1818–1867)
Cyrus Griffin
United States federal judge (1749-1810)
Virgil Goode
American politician
William Branch Giles
American politician (1762-1830)

William S. Archer
American politician (1789-1855)

William L. Scott
American politician (1915–1997)
James Lindsay Almond, Jr.
United States federal judge (1898-1986)
George Tucker
American politician in Virginia (1775–1861)
Louis Auchincloss
American lawyer, novelist and historian (1917–2010)

Philip Pendleton Barbour
U.S. Congressman from Virginia and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1783-1841)

Thomas S. Martin
American politician (1847–1919)
John Walker
American politician (1744–1809)

Thomas Walker Gilmer
American politician (1802-1844)