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    1. [PAGE] John PAGE, Governor..question
    2. George, or any other "PAGE" experts.....Found the following conflicting information. Do you know which is correct. Who are the parents of John PAGE, Governor? Thanks Linda >From Book: The Page Family--American Genealogical Research Institute 1975 John Page (April 17, 1743-October 11, 1808): Revolutionary patriot, congressman, and governor of Virginia. Born in Gloucester County, Va, John was the son of Mann and Alice (Grymes) Page. Page attended the College of William and Mary and there became the friend of Thomas Jefferson. Widowed by his first wife, Frances Burwell, Page remarried in 1789, Margaret Lowther. Both women bore him a total of twenty children. Page began his political career in the Colonial House of Burgesses. He served as Lt Gov. under Patrick Henry and helped grame the Constitution of Va in 1776. He ran for governor against Thomas Jefferson in 1779 but lost. After serving in the Va assembly for many years, he went to Congress where he spent eight years. Page supported Jefferson in his Presidential bid in 1800 and in 1802 succeeded James Monroe as governor of Virginia. After serving three terms as governor, he moved to a minor federal post to which Jefferson appointed him. Name: John Page Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume II I--Fathers of the Revolution was born at "Rosewell," Gloucester county, Virginia, April 17, 1744, son of Mann and Mary Mason (Selden) Page. He was graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1763, and was married, about 1765, to Frances Burwell, daughter of Robert Burwell, Esq., of the council. He was a member of the house of burgesses, of the Colonial council, and the committee of safety; a delegate to the state constitutional convention of July, 1776; lieutenant-governor; a representative in the 1st-4th Congresses, 1789-97; a Jefferson elector in 1801 and governor, from 1802 to 1805, succeeding James Monroe. Being constitutionally ineligible for re-election in 1805, he was succeeded by William H. Cabell. He was United States commissioner of loans for Virginia, by appointment of President Jefferson, 1805-08; and a visitor to the College of William and Mary, appointed in 1776. At one time he was urged to take orders in the church, his friends desiring that he should become the first bishop of Virginia. He was the author of "Addresses to the People," (1796 and 1799). He died in Richmond, October 11, 1808.

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