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Senate Service
Longest Service (24 years or more): Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. Carter Glass Thomas S. Martin John Warner

Virginia Senators Who Served in Leadership Positions
Senate President (U.S. Vice President): Thomas Jefferson, John Tyler President Pro Tempore: Richard Henry Lee, Henry Tazewell, James Barbour, Littleton Tazewell, John Tyler, James M. Mason, Carter Glass Democratic Caucus Chair: Thomas S. Martin Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair: Charles S. Robb National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair: George F. Allen Standing Committee Chairs Since 1947: Armed Services: John W. Warner Banking: A. Willis Robertson Finance: Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. Rules and Administration: John W. Warner
Virginia Senators Depicted on U.S. Postage Stamps:
James Monroe

Virginia Citizens Honored in the Capitol's Art Collection
Statuary: Robert E. Lee by Edward V. Valentine (Statuary Hall); George Washington by Antoine Houdon (Rotunda); Thomas Jefferson by P.J. David d'Angers (Rotunda); Thomas Jefferson by Hiram Powers (House wing, second floor, east corridor); John Marshall by William W. Story (Capitol grounds, west front). Busts: Presidents Collection: George Washington by David d'Angers (Rotunda). Vice Presidents Collection: Thomas Jefferson by Sir Moses Ezekiel (Senate chamber gallery); John Tyler by William McCauslen (Senate chamber gallery). Chief Justices Collection: John Marshall by Hiram Powers (old Supreme Court chamber). Paintings: Baptism of Pocahontas at Jamestown, Virginia by John G. Chapman (Rotunda); Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia by John Trumbull (Rotunda); General George Washington Resigning His Commission to Congress as Commander in Chief of the Army by John Trumbull (Rotunda); Mrs. Motte Directing Generals Marion and Lee to Burn Her Mansion to Dislodge the British by John Blake White (Senate wing, third floor, south corridor). Portraits: Two portraits of Thomas Jefferson: by Constantino Brumidi (S-216), and by Thomas Sully (S-210). Five portraits of George Washington: by Charles Willson Peale (Senate wing, third floor, west corridor), by Rembrandt Peale (old Senate chamber), by Gilbert Stuart (S-207, Senators' Conference Room), by Gilbert Stuart (H-207, House Reception Room), by Gilbert Stuart (S-210), and by John Vanderlyn after Gilbert Stuart (House chamber). Portraits of four Virginians who served as Speaker of the House: Philip P. Barbour by Kate F. Edwards, Andrew Stevenson by Spencer B. Nichols, Robert M.T. Hunter by Richard N. Brooke, John W. Jones by James B. Sword (all in Speaker's Lobby, House wing, second floor). Also: Patrick Henry by George B. Matthews after Thomas Sully (Senate wing, second floor, main corridor); John Marshall by Richard N. Brooke (House wing, third floor, west corridor).

Unusual Facts
One of Virginia's first two senators, William Grayson, was the first senator to die in office. The Revolutionary War veteran died at age fifty, shortly before the second session of the First Congress.


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