Ralph Wormeley (delegate)
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Ralph Wormeley was an American planter and politician who served as a member of the Governor's Advisory Council, was suspected of being a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War, and after the
Portrait by Robert Edge Pine, 1763
The Virginia Ratifying Convention was a convention of 168 delegates from Virginia who met in 1788 to ratify or reject the United States Constitution, which had been drafted at the Philadelphia Convent
Ralph Wormeley (delegate)
…Revolutionary War, and after the conflict represented Middlesex County, Virginia in the Virginia House of Delegates (1788-1791) as well as at the Virginia Ratifying Convention of 1788, where he voted in favor of ratification of the federal Constitution. Born to the former Jane Bowles of Maryland at the Wormeley family's…
Edmund Pendleton, the presiding officer of the convention
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