John Harvey (Virginia)
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Sir John Harvey (d.1646)[1][2] was a British Colonial Governor of Virginia. He was elected to the position on March 26, 1628.[3] In 1635 he was suspended and impeached by the House of Burgesses (who named John West as a temporary replacement), and he returned to England. He was restored to his post by the King[4] in 1636 and returned to Virginia the following year. His government has been described as tyrannical[5] and Harvey himself has been called "an obnoxious ruler"[6] and was generally held to be unpopular.[7]
In 1639 Harvey was replaced as governor by Sir Francis Wyatt.[8]
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- ^ Governor of Virginia, <http://www.nndb.com/gov/924/000051771/>. Retrieved on 23 September 2007
- ^ WorldStatesmen.org, <http://www.worldstatesmen.org/US_states_V-W.html>. Retrieved on 23 September 2007
- ^ Brock, R.A. (1888). Virginia and Virginians. H.H. Hardesty, 20.
- ^ Cooke, John Esten (1883). Virginia: A History of the People. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 166.
- ^ Grahame, James (1836). The History of the United States of North America: From the Plantation of the British Colonies till their Revolt and Declaration of Independence. Smith, Elder & Co., 57.
- ^ Chalmers, George (1845). An Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the American Colonies: Being a Comprehensive View of its Origin, Derived from the State Papers Contained in the Public Offices of Great Britain. J. Munroe & Co., 36.
- ^ Billings, Warren M. (1975). The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1689. UNC Press, 236. ISBN 0807812374.
- ^ Fiske, John (1900). Old Virginia and Her Neighbours. Houghton, Mifflin and company, 280.
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