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The Governor’s Council (also known as the Council of State or simply the Council) was the upper house of the colonial legislature in the Colony of Virginia from 1607 until the American Revolution in 1776. Consisting of 12 men who after the 1630s were appointed by the British Sovereign the Governor’s Council also served as an advisory body to the Virginia Royal Governor and as the highest judicial body in the colony.

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