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By GEORGE BOWLES When Virginia’s new United States Senator is sworn into office next January, it will be the first time this senate seat has changed hands by popular vote. Before the State Democratic Convention of 1904, Virginia’s Senators were chosen exclusively by the legislature. The Convention adopted the primary method of nominating candidates, and thus the Old Dominion began, in effect, electing its senators by popular vote more than a decade before the ratification of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution.
This amendment made the popular election of senators a requirement in all states. It was ratified on May 31. 1913.
In Virginia the incumbents at the time of the change were Sens. Thomas S. Martin of Scottsville, who had been elected in 1893, and John W. Daniel, the Lame Lion of Lynchburg. elected in 1887. Sen. Daniel was accorded the sobriquet because of a Civil War wound.
Sen. Martin was the leader of the ruling Democratic machine, a mantle which he had inherited from Sen. John S. Barbour of Culpeper, the founding father of what was destined to become, in more recent history, the Byrd Organization.
Let us now track the two senate seats down to the present.
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