It is not a legacy that the “Virginia Dynasty” would be proud of. Despite domestic and international opposition, the president has consolidated his hold over the socialist state.

James Monroe was the last of the so-called Virginia Dynasty of presidents. Like James Madison, Monroe was secretary of state before becoming president. A spirit of vigorous nationalism known as the ...

Their clan headquarters may have been in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, but the true center of the Kennedy political dynasty in the '50s and '60s was Hickory Hill, the Virginia home of Robert and ...

(The other was “the Virginia dynasty” of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe.) The first trio culminated in an “era of good feelings” (Monroe was reelected unopposed).