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About Richard Bland
Richard Bland, sometimes referred to as Richard Bland II or Richard Bland of Jordan's Point, was an American Founding Father, planter, lawyer and politician from Virginia. A cousin and early mentor of Thomas Jefferson, Bland served 34 years in the Virginia General Assembly, and with John Robinson and this man's cousin Peyton Randolph as one of the most influential and productive burgesses during the last quarter century of the colonial period.
Everything about Richard Bland →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- member of the Virginia House of Delegates
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 6, 1710
- Died
- October 26, 1776