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<span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Two former attorneys general, Jon Bruning of Nebraska and Jerry Kilgore of Virginia, participated in the panel, as did ex-Wisconsin Deputy Attorney General Andy Cook and&nbsp;</span><b style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">former West Virginia Solicitor General Elbert Lin</b><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">. Bruning, Kilgore, Cook have all registered to lobby at the state level, while Lin works for a law and lobbying firm that represents energy companies. Their companies and clients have been big donors to RAGA.</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">J</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">erry Walter Kilgore</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(born August 23, 1961) is an American attorney, politician and member of the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican Party</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He served as the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Virginia" title="Attorney General of Virginia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Attorney General of Virginia</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">from 2002 to 2005 and was the Republican nominee for</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Virginia" title="Governor of Virginia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Governor of Virginia</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">in</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_gubernatorial_election,2005" title="Virginia gubernatorial election, 2005" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">2005</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, losing to</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Democratic</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">nominee</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Kaine" title="Tim Kaine" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Tim Kaine</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He is a partner with the law firm</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozen_O%27Connor" title="Cozen O'Connor" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Cozen O'Connor</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and is a member of the firm's leading State Attorneys General practice in Washington, D.C.</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kilgore(politician)#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He also serves as finance chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia.</span></font></div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He was previously a partner at&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGuireWoods" title="McGuireWoods" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">McGuireWoods</a>&nbsp;and a senior advisor with McGuireWoods Consulting in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,Virginia" title="Richmond, Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richmond, Virginia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mgwc_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kilgore(politician)#cite_note-mgwc-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></h2>&nbsp;<span class="toctoggle" style="user-select: none;">&nbsp;[<a role="button" tabindex="0" class="togglelink" style="background: none; cursor: pointer;">hide</a>]&nbsp;</span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kilgore(politician)#Background" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Background</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kilgore(politician)#Early_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kilgore(politician)#2005_gubernatorial_campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2005 gubernatorial campaign</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kilgore(politician)#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Electoral history</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kilgore(politician)#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" /><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Background">Background</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry_Kilgore(politician)&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Background" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Born in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsport,Tennessee" title="Kingsport, Tennessee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kingsport, Tennessee</a>&nbsp;on August 23, 1961, Kilgore earned a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">B.A.</a>&nbsp;degree&nbsp;<i>summa cum laude</i>&nbsp;from Clinch Valley College (now the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia%27s_College_at_Wise" title="University of Virginia's College at Wise" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Virginia's College at Wise</a>) in 1983 and a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">J.D.</a>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%26_Mary_School_of_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="William & Mary School of Law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">William & Mary School of Law</a>&nbsp;in 1986.<sup id="cite_ref-mgwc_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kilgore(politician)#cite_note-mgwc-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup>&nbsp;His twin brother,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Kilgore" title="Terry Kilgore" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Terry Kilgore</a>, has served in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_House_of_Delegates" title="Virginia House of Delegates" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Virginia House of Delegates</a>&nbsp;since 1994.</font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_career">Early career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerry_Kilgore(politician)&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">During </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">1987 and 1992, Kilgore served as an Assistant&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney" title="United States Attorney" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Attorney</a>&nbsp;for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Western_District_of_Virginia" title="United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Western District of Virginia</a>. He was Secretary of Public Safety under Governor&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Allen(U.S.politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="George Allen (U.S. politician)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">George Allen</a>&nbsp;from 1994 to 1998 and was <b>elected&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Virginia" title="Attorney General of Virginia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Attorney General of Virginia</a>&nbsp;in 2001 by a wide margin</b>.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kilgore is known for his conservative views on social issues, especially with respect to gun control, religion and abortion. He was critical of Democratic Governor&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Warner" title="Mark Warner" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mark Warner</a>'s fiscal policy, particularly the 2004 budget that included substantial tax increases. Kilgore garnered national attention for his opposition to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herndon,Virginia" title="Herndon, Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Herndon</a>&nbsp;day-laborer center and he has traditionally held the view that laws regarding&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Illegal immigration to the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">illegal immigration</a>&nbsp;should be enforced stringently.</font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2005_gubernatorial_campaign">2005 gubernatorial campaign</span></font></h2><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_gubernatorial_election,2005" title="Virginia gubernatorial election, 2005" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Virginia gubernatorial election, 2005</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kilgore</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> resigned as Attorney General in February 2005 to run for Governor (as is the convention in Virginia) and easily won the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_Election" class="mw-redirect" title="Primary Election" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">primary election</a>&nbsp;against&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrenton,Virginia" title="Warrenton, Virginia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Warrenton</a>&nbsp;Mayor&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B.Fitch" title="George B. Fitch" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">George B. Fitch</a>&nbsp;to become the Republican nominee.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In the general election, he ran against Democratic nominee&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Kaine" title="Tim Kaine" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Tim Kaine</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Virginia" title="Lieutenant Governor of Virginia" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Lieutenant Governor of Virginia</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and State Senator&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Potts" title="Russ Potts" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Russ Potts</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-choice" class="mw-redirect" title="Pro-choice" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">pro-choice</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Republican who ran as an independent candidate. Early in the race, Kilgore showed solid leads of ten points or more in the polls, but Kaine steadily closed the gap and ultimately defeated Kilgore by a margin of 52% to 46%.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Kilgore's campaign was at times criticized for taking steps to avoid debates;</b> Kilgore refused to debate Potts for the majority of the campaign, at times leaving Kaine and Potts to debate each other in his absence. He agreed to debate only with Kaine, and only if the footage could not be aired in campaign commercials. During this debate, he refused to answer whether or not he would make&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">abortion</a>&nbsp;a crime. This apparent public moderation of his previously open and hard-line stance on abortion troubled some of his conservative supporters.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He was</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <b style="">further criticized for failing to limit his&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_campaigning" title="Negative campaigning" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">negative advertisements</a>&nbsp;to 50% of his campaign's total publicity as Kaine proposed</b>. One such advertisement featured a father whose son had been murdered by a man who was on Virginia's&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_row" title="Death row" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">death row</a>; the father expressed doubt that the sentence would be carried out if Kaine were elected and alleged that Kaine would not even have authorized the execution of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Adolf Hitler</a>, based on an interview with the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Times-Dispatch" title="Richmond Times-Dispatch" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Richmond Times-Dispatch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kilgore(politician)#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;The negative reaction to the mention of Hitler combined with Kaine's pledge to carry out the death penalty and explanation of his personal opposition as arising from his&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Catholic</a>&nbsp;faith helped to neutralize what many observers thought would've been a potent issue for Kilgore.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In trying to explain how a solid Republican could lose a traditionally Republican state by such a large margin, political commentators cited numerous key factors. Kaine's campaign had many political advantages, including his association with the state's popular Democratic Governor&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Warner" title="Mark Warner" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mark Warner</a>&nbsp;and defense of Warner's 2004 budget priorities, his "response ads" to Kilgore's death penalty advertisements, which featured him speaking to voters about his religious convictions, his relentless in-person campaigning across the state, and his opposition to tax increases. In contrast, Kilgore's campaign had many political disadvantages, including a backlash over the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty" class="mw-redirect" title="Death penalty" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">death penalty</a>&nbsp;ads that Kilgore's campaign ran in the fall, the relatively low poll numbers of then-President&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a>&nbsp;at the time the election, and a bitter division between the moderate and conservative wings of the Republican party over tax and spending priorities.</font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Electoral_history">Electoral history</span></font></h2><table class="wikitable" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Date</font></th><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Election</font></th><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Candidate</font></th><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Party</font></th><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Votes</font></th><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">%</font></th></tr><tr><th colspan="6" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Attorney General of Virginia</font></th></tr><tr><th rowspan="4" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nov 6, 2001<sup id="cite_ref-sbe2001_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kilgore(politician)#cite_note-sbe2001-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></th><td rowspan="4" align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">General</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">J W Kilgore</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: rgb(255, 182, 182);"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican</font></a></b></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1,107,068</font></b></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">60.01</font></b></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.Donald_McEachin" class="mw-redirect" title="A. Donald McEachin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">A D McEachin</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: rgb(176, 206, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Democratic</font></a></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">736,431</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">39.92</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Write Ins</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1,282</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">0.07</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: beige;"><i><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Earley" title="Mark Earley" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mark Earley</a>&nbsp;resigned for election-year replacement&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_A.Beales" title="Randolph A. Beales" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Randolph A. Beales</a>; seat remained Republican</font></i></td></tr><tr><th colspan="6" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Governor of Virginia</font></th></tr><tr><th rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jun 14, 2005<sup id="cite_ref-sbe2005p_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kilgore(politician)#cite_note-sbe2005p-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></th><td rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: rgb(255, 182, 182);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican primary</font></td><td colspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">J W Kilgore</font></b></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">145,002</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">82.78</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">G B Fitch</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">30,168</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">17.22</font></td></tr><tr><th rowspan="5" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nov 8, 2005<sup id="cite_ref-sbe2005_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kilgore(politician)#cite_note-sbe2005-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></th><td rowspan="5" align="center" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">General</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Kaine" title="Tim Kaine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">T M Kaine</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: rgb(176, 206, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1,025,942</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">51.72</font></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">J W Kilgore</font></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: rgb(255, 182, 182);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican</font></b></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">912,327</font></b></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">45.99</font></b></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H R Potts Jr</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">43,953</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2.22</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Write Ins</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1,556</font></td><td align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">0.08</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background: beige;"><i><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Warner" title="Mark Warner" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mark Warner</a>&nbsp;could not run for consecutive terms; seat remained Democratic</font></i></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; 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Virginia State Board of Elections. Archived from&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sbe.virginia.gov/ElectionResults/2005/Junr2005Primary/index.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">the original</a>&nbsp;on August 13, 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Virginia State Board of Elections. Archived from&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sbe.virginia.gov/ElectionResults/2005/nov2005/html/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">the original</a>&nbsp;on December 28, 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">They'll kill for this job</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height: 1;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="&nbsp;Dead link since December 2017">permanent dead link</span></a></i>]</span></sup>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staunton,Virginia" title="Staunton, Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Staunton News-Leader</a></i>&nbsp;— October 19, 2005</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tricities.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=TRI%2FMGArticle%2FTRI_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128767529841" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">Death penalty attack is a vile political tactic</a>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol,Virginia" title="Bristol, Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bristol Herald Courier</a></i>&nbsp;— October 14, 2005</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/20120917143606/http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/wb/wb/xp-36011" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">Death penalty demagoguery</a>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roanoke_Times" title="The Roanoke Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Roanoke Times</a></i>&nbsp;— October 13, 2005</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/20130202013308/http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/wb/wb/xp-35024" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">Jerry Kilgore's shrinking low profile</a>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roanoke_Times" title="The Roanoke Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Roanoke Times</a></i>&nbsp;— October 6, 2005</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051204002953/http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=92942&ran=106355" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">Ad Watch: Kilgore's gas tax claim in new ad is unfounded</a>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virginian-Pilot" title="The Virginian-Pilot" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Virginian-Pilot</a></i>&nbsp;— September 30, 2005</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schapiro, Jeff E.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783318855" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">Kilgore refuses to debate Potts</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height: 1;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="&nbsp;Dead link since December 2017">permanent dead link</span></a></i>]</span></sup>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Times-Dispatch" title="Richmond Times-Dispatch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richmond Times-Dispatch</a></i>&nbsp;— June 16, 2005.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Branigin, William:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/AR2005110800371.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">Kaine Defeats Kilgore in Va. Gubernatorial Race</a>, Washington Post, Nov. 8, 2005.</font></li></ul><table class="wikitable succession-box" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 0.5em auto; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse; clear: both;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="3" style="border-width: 5px 1px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(221, 206, 242) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177); border-image: initial; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Legal offices</font></th></tr><tr style="text-align: center;"><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 211.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Preceded&nbsp;by
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_A.Beales" title="Randolph A. Beales" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Randolph A. Beales</a></span></font></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 285.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Virginia" title="Attorney General of Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Attorney General of Virginia</a></b>
January 12, 2002 – February 1, 2005</font></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 210.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Succeeded&nbsp;by
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Jagdmann" title="Judith Jagdmann" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Judith Jagdmann</a></span></font></td></tr><tr><th colspan="3" style="border-width: 5px 1px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 191, 0) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177); border-image: initial; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Party political offices</font></th></tr><tr style="text-align: center;"><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 211.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Preceded&nbsp;by
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Earley" title="Mark Earley" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mark Earley</a></span></font></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 285.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican</a>&nbsp;Nominee for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Virginia" title="Governor of Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Governor of Virginia</a></b>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_gubernatorial_election,2005" title="Virginia gubernatorial election, 2005" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2005</a></font></td><td rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 210.375px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Succeeded&nbsp;by
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