page_title: Westmoreland County, Virginia
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Westmoreland County, Virginia / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: English: View of the entrance to Stratford Hall, the Lee family plantation, located on State Route 214, Stratford, Westmoreland County, Virginia.
context_page_description: Westmoreland County is a county located in the Northern Neck of the Commonwealth of Virginia. At the 2010 census, the population was 17,454. Its county seat is Montross.
context_section_description: George Washington (1732-1799), the first president of the United States
  John Washington (1631-1677), great-grandfather of George Washington
  Bushrod Washington (1762-1829), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, founder and first president of the American Colonization Society, nephew of George Washington and inheritor of Mount Vernon
  James Monroe (1758-1831), the fifth president of the United States
  Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), a general best known for fighting on behalf of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War
  Richard Henry Lee, a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence, United States Senator, and the sixth president of the United States in Congress Assembled (under the Articles of Confederation)
  Francis Lightfoot Lee, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
  Richard "Squire" Lee
  Thomas Brown, the second governor of Florida
  Nicholas Spencer, acting governor of Virginia, co-patentee of Mount Vernon estate
  Thomas Lee, a leading political figure in colonial Virginia
  Nathaniel Rochester, founder of Rochester, New York
  Thomas Sandford, American Revolutionary War soldier, Kentucky legislator, Member of the Eighth and Ninth U.S. Congress.
  Sloan Wilson, the author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
  Rob Wittman, United States Congressman (VA-1, Republican)
  Thomas Marshall (1700-1752) Grandfather of Chief Justice John Marshall
  Walter Balderson, Emmy Award-winning video engineer
  John dos Passos, the author of the U.S.A. trilogy and other works
caption: View of the main facade, Stratford Hall, ancestral home of the Lee family of Virginia, Westmoreland County
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