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Who was the governor of Virginia as the US Civil War began?
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John Letcher (1813-1884) was elected governor of Virginia in 1859, and served from 1860 to 1864. Virginia did not secede from the Union until after the Civil War "officially" began on April 15, 1861.
In 1864, he was succeeded by former governor William Smith, whose term ended with the surrender of the Confederacy in May 1965.
*It was not until July, 1861 that the Union-controlled areas of western Virginia elected a separate governor for the "Restored Government of Virginia" and conventions were held to divide most of this area as the new state of West Virginia (1863).
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 8y agoThe governor of Virginia at the beginning of the US Civil War was Governor John Letcher. He was fully behind the Confederacy, however he understood that his state was in danger being so close to the US capital of Washington DC and potentially also close to a large Union army.
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