Virginia: President of the Committee of Safety: 1775-1776
| President of the Committee of Safety [1] | |
| 26 Aug 1775 - 5 Jul 1776 | Edmund Pendleton [2] |
- The Committee of Safety was elected by the third Provincial Convention on 24 Aug 1775 to serve "until the sitting of the next General Convention, or for one year, in case the Convention should not meet within that time." When the fourth Convention met on 1 Dec 1775, the Committee's term expired, but on 5 Dec the Convention resolved "to revive" it and empowered its members to continue until the end of the session. A new Committee was elected on 16 Dec 1775 and on 18 Jan 1776 authorized to function "until the end of the next session of the General Convention, or for one year, in case the Convention should not meet within that time." It continued to meet until 5 Jul 1776, when the fifth Convention adjourned.
- The journals of the Committee of Safety for 1775 are not known to be extant, and the election of Pendleton as President is presumed to have taken place on 26 Aug 1775, the date appearing on the earliest surviving resolution. Pendleton may have been reelected on 21 Jan 1776—his signature appears on a permit issued on that date.