A Guide to the Records of the Policy Office: Executive Orders and Memorandum of Governor Lawrence Douglas Wilder, 1986-1993
(bulk 1990-1993)
Governor Lawrence Douglas Wilder, Policy Office: Executive Orders and Memorandum
35539
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Accession Number 35539
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Governor Lawrence Douglas Wilder. Policy Office: Executive Orders and Memorandum, 1986-1993 (bulk 1990-1993). Accession 35539.
State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Acquisition Information
Transferred from Governor Lawrence Douglas Wilder on 31 October 1996.
Lawrence Douglas Wilder was born in Richmond, Va., on January 17, 1931. He graduated from Virginia Union University in 1951
and afterwards was drafted into the Army, where he served in the Korean War from 1952-1953 and received a bronze star. He
then attended the Howard University School of Law and graduated in 1959. Douglas Wilder was elected to the Virginia Senate
in 1969 as the first African American member since Reconstruction and served in the Senate for five terms. In 1985, he was
elected to the office of Lieutenant Governor as the first African American to be elected to statewide office in Virginia.
L. Douglas Wilder won the election for Governor of Virginia in 1989 and served from January 13, 1990 to January 14, 1994.
He was the first African American to be elected as Governor in United States.
During the Wilder Administration, the Policy Office was headed by Walter McFarlane, Executive Assistant for Policy, and four
Special Assistants: Richard Taylor (Health and Human Resources, and Education), Robert Blue (Finance and Natural Resources),
Jeff Nuechterlein (Economic Development and Transportation), and Lynne Porfiri (Administration and Public Safety). The Policy
Office was responsible for review and coordination of all policy matters, including: review of proposed legislation from agencies
and Cabinet; formulation of the Governor's legislative initiatives; tracking legislation and serving as legislative liaison;
review of General Assembly approved legislation submitted to the Governor for signature, amendment or veto; review of death
penalty clemency requests, as well as other pardon and restoration of rights requests; review of legal settlements and other
legal matters from the Office of the Attorney General's Office; review of proposed regulations; review of all matters pertaining
to the judiciary and writs of habeas corpus; review of proposed executive orders; assistance with speech writing; serving
as staff for Governor's special commissions; administrative support for Governor's Fellows program; serving as special interest
liaison; acting as in-house counsel; and all correspondence with policy implications or pertaining to sensitive or controversial
issues requiring legal overview.
Records of the Policy Office: Executive Orders and Memorandum, 1986-1993 (bulk 1990-1993), documenting Governor Lawrence Douglas
Wilder's directives. Executive Orders are issued by the Governor to accomplish a specific purpose and have the full weight
and effect of the law. Executive Memorandums allows the Governor to establish official policy and provide guidance and direction
to state agencies without the memorandum having the effect of law. This series consists mostly of copies of executive orders
and includes research material involving the topic of the order.
Executive Order # 18, Responsibility of State Officials and Agencies to Participate in the 1980 Super fund Program,
1990
Box 1
Folder 26
Executive Order # 22, Delegation of Authority,
1990
Box 1
Folder 27
Executive Order # 23, Review of Regulations Proposed by State Agencies,
1990
Box 2
Folder 1
Executive Orders # 24, 25, 26, Providing Assistance for Labor Day Weekend in Virginia Beach,
1990
Box 2
Folder 2
Executive Order # 26, Promulgation of Commonwealth of Virginia Emergency Operations Plan, Closing of the Chesapeake Bridge
Tunnel,
1990
Box 2
Folder 3
Executive Order # 27, Inter-Departmental Regulation of Children's Residential Facilities,
1990
Box 2
Folder 4
Executive Order W (Authority and Responsibility of the Governor's Secretaries) and Order X (Delegation of Authority for Certain
Actions Affecting Management of the Commonwealth),
1990
Box 2
Folder 5
Draft Executive Orders, Coordination of Services for Veteran's and Families,
1991
Box 2
Folder 6
Draft Executive Orders, Federal Limit on Tax Credits for Low-Income Housing,
1991
Box 2
Folder 7
Draft Executive Orders, Creating the Debt Capacity Advisory Committee,
1991
Box 2
Folder 8
Draft Executive Orders, Virginia War Memorial Foundation and Board of Trustee,
1991
Box 2
Folder 9
Executive Order A-91, Streamlining Administrative Burdens on Local Governments Related to State Financial Assistance Programs,
1991
Box 2
Folder 10
Executive Order BB, Declaration of State of Emergency,
1991
Box 2
Folder 11
Executive Order CC, Declaration State of Emergency Fire in Wakefield, Virginia,
1991
Box 2
Folder 12
Executive Order # 30, Creation of Task Force on Substance Abuse and Sexual Assault on College Campuses,
1991
Box 2
Folder 13
Executive Order #31 (DD), Federal Limit on Tax Credits for Low Income Housing,
1991
Box 2
Folder 14
Executive Order # 33, Delegation of Authority to Secretaries,
1991
Box 2
Folder 15
Executive Order # 34, States of Emergency Due to Natural Disasters,
1991
Box 2
Folder 16
Executive Order # 37, Virginia Energy Plan,
1991
Box 2
Folder 17
Executive Order # 38, Debt Capacity Advisory Committee,
1991
Box 2
Folder 18
Executive Order # 39, Providing Assistance for Labor Day Weekend, in Virginia Beach,
1991
Box 2
Folder 19
Executive Order # 40, Federal Limit on Tax Credits for Low Income Housing,
1991
Box 2
Folder 20
Executive Order# 41, Providing for the Coordination of Executive Branch Agencies in Services Provided to Veterans and their
Families,
1991
Box 2
Folder 21
Proposed Executive Order, Reallocation of Private Activity Board Authority for Housing,
1992
Box 2
Folder 22
Executive Order # 1, Replacement of Emblem with the Flag of the United States of America,
1992
Box 2
Folder 23
Executive Order # 43, Creating the Governor's Commission on Defense Conversion and Economic Adjustment,
1992
Box 2
Folder 24
Executive Order # 44, Virginia National Guard Sent to Kentucky to Fight Forest Fires,
1992
Box 2
Folder 25
Executive Order # 45, April Flooding Emergency,
1992
Box 2
Folder 26
Executive Order # 46, Revised Governor's Commission on Campaign Finance Reform Government Accountability and Ethics,
1992
Box 2
Folder 27
Executive Order # 47, Anti-Crime Partnership Program,
1992
Box 3
Folder 1
Executive Order # 48, Governor's Commission on Violent Crime,
1992
Box 3
Folder 2
Executive Order # 49, Governor's Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics,
1992
Box 3
Folder 3
Executive Order # 50, Governor's Advisory Commission on Worker's Compensation,
1992
Box 3
Folder 4
Executive Order # 51, Continuing Certain Declarations of States of Emergency Due to Natural Disaster,
1992
Box 3
Folder 5
Executive Order # 52, Governor's Commission on the Pickett Road Tank Farm,
1992
Box 3
Folder 6
Executive Order # 53, Centralized Fleet Assignment Criteria to other State-owed Passenger Vehicles,
1992
Box 3
Folder 7
Executive Order # 54, Delegations on Authority to Officials in Office of Administration,
1992
Box 3
Folder 8
Executive Order # 55, Governor Authority under Federal Inter modal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991,
1991-1992
Box 3
Folder 9
Executive Order # 56, Emergency Travel Authorization for Trucks Hauling Goods to Disaster Area,
1992
Box 3
Folder 10
Executive Order # 57, Hot line for State Employees to Report Fraud, Waste or Abuse (Proposed),
1992
Box 3
Folder 11
Executive Order # 57, Review of Regulations Proposed by State Agencies,
1992
Box 3
Folder 12
Executive Order # 58, Job Training Partnership Act, (Proposed),
1992
Box 3
Folder 13
Executive Order # 59, Promoting the Commonwealth's Economic Development through VEDCORP Inc. (Proposed),
1992
Box 3
Folder 14
Executive Order # 59, Declaration of a State of Emergency Arising from Heavy Snowfall in Frederick County,
1992
Box 3
Folder 15
Executive Order # 60, Delegation of Authority in General Obligation Bond Acts,
1992
Box 3
Folder 16
Executive Memorandum # 3, Natural Disaster Due to Pine Bark Beetle Infestation,
1993
Draft Executive Order, Continuing Governor's Commission on Violent Crime,
1993
Box 3
Folder 20
Proposed Smoking Ban in Public Buildings,
1993
Box 3
Folder 21
Proposed Executive Order, Use of Camp Pendleton over Labor Day,
1993
Box 3
Folder 22
Executive Order # 63, Continuing the Governor's Advisory Commission on Worker's Compensation,
1993
Box 3
Folder 23
Executive Order # 64, Governor's Advisory Commission on Revitalization of Virginia's Urban Areas,
1993
Box 4
Folder 1
Executive Order # 66, Cavazos-Draught Act,
1993
Box 4
Folder 2
Executive Order # 67, Rescind Executive Order 56 Emergency Travel Authorization,
1993
Box 4
Folder 3
Executive Order # 68, Continuing Governor's Commission on Defense Conversion and Economic Adjustments,
1993
Box 4
Folder 4
Executive Order # 69, Establishing the Governor's Advisory Commission on Welfare Reform,
1993
Box 4
Folder 5
Executive Order # 70, Continuing Certain Declarations of States of Emergency Due to Natural Disasters,
1993
Box 4
Folder 6
Executive Order # 71, Continuing Governor's Commission on Violent Crime,
1993
Box 4
Folder 7
Executive Order # 72, Declaration of State of Emergency Arising from a Storm System,
1993
Box 4
Folder 8
Executive Order # 73, Providing for Assistance of the National Guard to the State Police for the Southern Governor's Association/African
Head of State Summit,
1993
Box 4
Folder 9
Executive Order # 74, Job Training Partnership Act Related Programs,
1993
Box 4
Folder 10
Executive Order # 75, Emergency Travel Authorization for Trucks Hauling Goods to Flood Disasters to Certain Areas, in the
Midwest,
1993
Box 4
Folder 11
Executive Order # 76, Declaration of a State of Emergency Arising from Tornadoes in Parts of Virginia,
1993
Box 4
Folder 12
Executive Order # 77, Declaration of State of Emergency Arising from a Fire in Chesterfield County,
1993
Box 4
Folder 13
Executive Order # 77, Declaration of State of Emergency in Chesterfield County,
1993
Box 4
Folder 14
Executive Order # 78, Declaration of State of Emergency Arising from Imminent Arrival of Hurricane Emily,
1993
Box 4
Folder 15
Executive Order # 79, Rescinding Executive Order # 8 Concerning Divesture from South African Companies,
1993
Box 4
Folder 16
Executive Order # 80, Emergency Travel Authorization for Truck Hauling Goods to Drought Stricken Areas in South Carolina,
1993
Box 4
Folder 17
Executive Order # 81, Establishing the Virginia-Middle East Peace Commission,
1993
Box 4
Folder 18
Executive Order # 82 Proscribing Those Persons Who Have Received Notices from the Governor Elect George F. Allen to Submit
their Resignation from Responding to Such Notice,
1993