has published three books, including Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (2007), a finalist for the National Book Award, and Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (1999). His third book, a biography of Abigail Adams, won the Bancroft Prize in 2010. Dwight Holton served as acting U.S. Attorney for Oregon from 2010 to 2011. He later lost to Ellen Rosenblum in the May 2012 primary in the race for Oregon Attorney General. In 1999, Linwood Holton Elementary School, in Richmond, Virginia, was named in his honor. In November 2005, Holton underwent surgery for bladder cancer. The University of Virginia Press published his memoir, Opportunity Time, in March 2008. He was a long-time member of the Governing Council of the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs. In 2017, the City of Roanoke hosted Holton for the dedication of a plaza named in his honor. On the day of Ralph Northam's inauguration in January 2018, Holton sat front and center for a photograph with Northam nine other former governors that followed him, including Bob McDonnell, Jim Gilmore, Tim Kaine, Terry McAuliffe, George Allen, Mark Warner, L. Douglas Wilder, Chuck Robb, and Gerald Baliles. Personal life Holton married Virginia "Jinks" Rogers on January 10, 1953. She was a CIA intelligence analyst and the daughter of a leading Roanoke Democratic Party figure. Together, they had four children, Anne, Tayloe, Woody, and Dwight. Anne is married to Tim Kaine, who served as governor of Virginia from 2006 through 2010, and has served as a United States Senator from Virginia since 2013. Kaine was the 2016 Democratic vice presidential nominee. Death, memorial, and legacy Linwood Holton died of natural causes at his home in Kilmarnock on October 28, 2021, at age 98. The memorial service for Holton in December 2021 at Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond included tributes to his belief in civil rights and school desegregation. In attendance were Gov. Ralph Northam, the other eight governors of the state, and Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin. Ann Compton noted that when Holton took office, there were only 31 Republicans among the 141 members of the state legislature. Holton's tenure as governor ushered in a new era, bringing to seven Republican governors elected compared to seven Democratic governors. Notes References Further reading Atkinson, Frank B. The Dynamic Dominion: Realignment and the Rise of Virginia's Republican Party Since