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Berkeley County voters first elected Tate to the
Virginia House of Delegates (a part time position) in 1797 and re-elected him in 1798. He was appointed justice of the Berkeley County Court on May 19, 1798, thus becoming the county magistrate. He again won election to the House of Delegates (a part
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He married and had a large family, including a son, Magnus Tate, Jr., who also served in the
Virginia House of Delegates. In the 1820 Census, Tate owned 11 enslaved persons, and his household also included 13 free white persons, 5 of them under age 16 but only 2 older than 25.
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A farmer who lived on the Dry Run Road about three miles outside
Martinsburg, the Berkeley County seat, Tate was also admitted to the bar. He practiced law in what later became the
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