Talk:List of Governors of Virginia

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I am expanding the current version and Including the previous elected office of the Governor's

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This site has a list of Virginia's governors. Most, but not all of it matches up. Of issue is whether acting governors should be included. It seems sometimes wikipedia includes these governors, and other times not. To keep things clear, those acting governors not on the list should be included. Acting governors should probably be designated as such.--Bkwillwm 22:40, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

The list on this page , John West (1635-1637), takes one to an article on Rev. John West (1809-1873). Please correct the link. 69.69.136.10 20:38, 23 September 2006 (UTC) Laird Pistor

[edit] Previous office field

I think the current set-up using the previous office field makes things confusing. The field seems to be frequently used to explain that a certain governor was an acting governor. This isn't the same as a previous office and it can be particularly confusing especially in cases such as Gilbert C. Walker who served as a provisional governor and then as an elected governor. Under the current layout, in the previous office field, Walker's first entry says he was military governor during that time (which was actually his current office not previous office) and in the next field it also lists him as a provisional governor )which actually was his previous office at that point).--Bkwillwm 06:11, 5 November 2006 (UTC)