Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868

John Curtiss Underwood
1868 Presiding officer

The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868, was an assembly of delegates elected by the voters to establish the fundamental law of Virginia following the American Civil War and the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. The Convention, which met from December 3, 1867 until April 17, 1868, set the stage for enfranchising freedmen, Virginia's readmission to Congress and an end to Congressional Reconstruction.[1]

  1. ^ Virginia Memory, Remaking Virginia