James Marshall Hanger (November 12, 1833 – August 26, 1912) was a

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politician. He represented

Augusta County Augusta County is a county in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The second-largest county of Virginia by total area, it completely surrounds the independent cities of Staunton and ...

in the

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, and served as that body's

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from 1871 until 1877. He was elected over C. P. Ramsdell. In 1881

Isaac C. Fowler Isaac Chapman Fowler (September 2, 1831, Jeffersonville, Virginia – April 29, 1905) was a Virginia politician. He served as mayor of Bristol, Virginia, from 1871 to 1875, represented Washington County in the Virginia House of Delegates, and se ...

was elected speaker over him. The Hanger family established itself in Augusta County in 1750 with Peter Hanger's arrival from Pennsylvania.

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* 1833 births 1912 deaths Consuls-general for the United States in Bermuda Speakers of the Virginia House of Delegates People from Augusta County, Virginia 19th-century members of the Virginia General Assembly {{Virginia-delegate-stub