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House Of Delegates: Elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1777, Harrison served as its speaker from 1778 to 1781. He was governor of the state for three terms (1781-1784) and then returned to the House of Delegates. In the 1788 Virginia ratifying convention he opposed the U. S. Constitution because it lacked a bill of rights. He died at Berkeley on April 24, 1791. His third son, William Henry Harrison, and his great-grandson, Benjamin, both became presidents of the United States.
Hathorne went to Dorchester, near Boston, from England about 1630, moved to Salem in 1636, and in 1646 became the first speaker in the House of Delegates of the Massachusetts colony. John, his eldest son, was to take a less enviable place in local history as one of the three judges in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692, and his descendants were to remember the curse that one of the witches was said to have pronounced on him and his posterity. Nathaniel's father, a sea captain, represented the fifth generation of the Hathornes in Salem.
RECALL, re-kol', The, a term applied to an election for removing a public official before the end of his term of office. Recall probably was practiced in ancient times and certainly in early America, though perhaps more by legislative bodies than by popular vote. The Articles of Confederation, in effect prior to the establishment of the United States Constitution, provided that ". . . delegates [to the Congress] shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct . . . with a power reserved to each State, to recall its delegates or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead, for the remainder of the year." |
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