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All
of Powhatan County; part of Chesterfield County comprised of the
Brandermill (403), Skinquarter (309), Swift Creek (411),
Tomahawk (310), and Woolridge (313) precincts and parts of the
Evergreen (312) and Midlothian (503) precincts; part of Fluvanna
County comprised of the Columbia (201) and Fork Union (301)
precincts; and part of Goochland County comprised of the Fife
(101), Hadensville (102), Sandy Hook (202), and Three Square
(201) precincts and part of the Goochland Court House (301)
Precinct.
Previously
the 65th District consisted of all of Powhatan County and
thirteen precincts in western Chesterfield. Accordingly,
the new district affords Delegate Ware the opportunity to
represent many old friends from across James River in nearby
Goochland and also in eastern Fluvanna.
One of the most widely respected Members of the legislature,
Delegate Ware was first elected in a special election in late
1998, and he has been re-elected in each odd-year election over
the past decade and more.
Ware serves
on four major committees in the House of Delegates,
including the powerful Rules Committee. He sits, too, on
the committees for Finance--of which he is vice chair and chairs
a major subcommittee; Commerce and Labor; and Agriculture,
Chesapeake, and Natural Resources, of which he is a former vice
chair and now chairs a major subcommittee. By appointment
of the Speaker of the House he chairs the Uranium Study
subcommittee of the Coal & Energy Commission, and he serves
by similar appointment on commissions on Small Business,
Unemployment Compensation, and the War of 1812 Bicentennial.
Delegate
Ware, who is 58, is a teacher of History and Government in
Blessed Sacrament-Huguenot Academy in Powhatan. Previously, for
fifteen years, he was a teacher of History and Government in
Powhatan High School. The
recipient of numerous civic and professional awards, he has been
named Outstanding Virginia Teacher of the Constitution by the
John Marshall Foundation. He
is also a former award-winning editor of the county paper.
He is a
graduate of Wheaton College with a double major in History and
Literature, and has undertaken graduate studies at Harvard
University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Longwood
College.
Delegate Ware
served two terms on the Board of Supervisors of Powhatan County
and served one year as the board’s chairman.
In 1994 he became the first public school teacher to
serve on the State Board of Education, by appointment of
Governor George Allen.
Ware and his
wife, Kathy, who is a certified public accountant in Goochland
Court House, are parents of four children, each of whom was
graduated from local public schools.
The Wares have four grandchildren.
He is a member of St. John Neumann Roman Catholic Church
of Powhatan, and the Wares also attend Sycamore Presbyterian
Church in Midlothian. |
