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Doddridge’s name from accounts of historical events in which he played a key role. Similarly, advocates for an independent West
Virginia later used Doddridge to fit their own purpose to highlight western needs to separate from Richmond. These competing approaches continue to influence lopsided narratives that sometimes bizarrely exclude Philip Doddridge from summaries of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829–30 for which he was a chief proponent and the leading reformer."
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Speech of Mr. Doddridge, in the case of Samuel
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