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NO HIGHER HONOR: Charles S. Robb
A former Marine who served in Vietnam, an attorney who attended the
University of Virginia and the son-in-law of the late President Lyndon
B. Johnson, Charles S. Robb enjoyed immense popularity in the Commonwealth
after making his political debut as Virginia’s lieutenant governor
in 1977. In 1981, he was elected Virginia’s 64th governor over
Attorney General J. Marshall Coleman. While Robb made support for public
education at all levels his highest priority, his term as governor is
also remembered for his combination of fiscal conservatism, his efforts
to improve minority representation in state government and his emphasis
on bringing Virginia more firmly into the 20th century. His term set
the stage for conservative Virginia to elect Democrats to its highest
office in 1985 and 1989, even while the nation was led by Republican
presidents.
Charles
S. Robb is a man whose leadership was instrumental in the resurrection
of Virginia’s struggling Democratic Party in the 1980s.
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