University of Virginia Library

Yale Graduate

Mr. Wilkinson is a magna cum laude
graduate of Yale University, class of 1967,
when he received highest honors on his thesis
"Senator Byrd and Virginia Politics." He later
adapted his thesis for publication as a book
which became a Virginia best seller in 1968.
The book was hailed as the most definitive
work on Virginia politics in years.

Always interested in politics, Mr. Wilkinson
worked many summers as apprentice on Capitol
Hill. Ironically he spent the summer of 1965 in
the office of Rep. Satterfield.

Mr. Wilkinson became familiar with primary
campaigning when he served as a volunteer aid
in the campaign headquarters of Democratic
U.S. Senator A. Willis Robertson in 1966.

In 1969 Mr. Wilkinson chose to align himself
with the moderate Republican drive led by
Holton. He was a speech writer for the Governor
during the campaign and also helped write the
inaugural address.

J. Harvey Wilkinson

Congressional Candidate In 3rd District

Mr. Wilkinson has said that he would wage a
"dawn to dusk" campaign that would adhere to
no blueprint of any of the earlier GOP attempts
to unseat Satterfield.

As to his position, Mr. Wilkinson describes
himself as a moderate or moderate conservative
Republican. In a news conference at the John
Marshall Hotel in Richmond Mr. Wilkinson
said: "There is a place in the public service of
our country for young men who believe both in
glory of the American past and the
greatness of the American future."