Virgil H. Goode Jr.
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Age: 60
Home: Rocky Mount, Va.
Current Job: U.S. representative, 5th District. He was elected in 1996, succeeding Democrat L.F. Payne.
Prior Job: State senator from 1973 to 1997.
Party: Republican
Occupation: Lawyer
Education: University of Richmond; University of Virginia Law School
Married: Lucy Dodson
Supported: Former governor L. Douglas Wilder, the first black governor of Virginia. Goode nominated Wilder for lieutenant governor in 1985.
Opposed: Regulations on guns and tobacco. He famously urged the defeat of restrictions on smoking in hospitals by saying he wanted his mother to be able to smoke on her deathbed.
Switched: Parties several times. He was elected to the state Senate as an independent but served most of his time there as a Democrat. Later, he won a seat in Congress as a Democrat, became an independent, and then a Republican.
