1. Wyatt Durrette served three terms in the Virginia House of Delegates as a Republican, from 1972 to 1978, and was the party's unsuccessful nominee for governor of Virginia in 1985.
14 Facts About Wyatt Durrette
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Wyatt Durrette was captain of the baseball, basketball and football teams, but was kicked off the basketball team for working an afternoon before a game in a clothing store and refusing to follow the coach's order to apologize to his team.
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Wyatt Durrette then attended the Washington and Lee University Law School and founded the school's Conservative Society as well as irregularly published a newspaper called The Southern Conservative.
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Wyatt Durrette later became active in the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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Wyatt Durrette married Cheryn Durrette and had seven children, living in Fairfax after his military service, then moving to the Richmond suburbs in 1985.
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Wyatt Durrette related that he was raised by strict Southern Baptist parents, later attended a Protestant church, and by 1985 occasionally attended Catholic services with his wife.
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Wyatt Durrette became active in the Virginia State, American, Fairfax County and Northern Virginia Jr.
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Wyatt Durrette became vice president and part owner of American Defense Systems Inc.
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Wyatt Durrette was a past director of the Vienna Jaycees and legal counsel to that nonprofit.
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Wyatt Durrette served on the boards of directors of Project Concern, Inc.
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Fairfax County voters elected Wyatt Durrette to represent them in 1971, the first year in which Fairfax was divided into separate house districts.
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Wyatt Durrette was re-elected twice, serving from 1972 until 1977.
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Wyatt Durrette ran for Attorney General twice, losing the Republican nomination in 1977 to Marshall Coleman and the general election in 1981 to Gerald Baliles.
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Wyatt Durrette challenged Baliles in 1985 for the Governorship but was unsuccessful and subsequently retired from politics.