; Whereas the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands promoted the growing political consciousness of Virgin Islanders, achieved greater economy and efficiency of government, and provided the legal basis for the political and administrative reorganization of the Virgin Islands of the United States; Whereas this was furthered strengthened by the 1965 Constitutional Convention Report, which recommended an elective Governor and Lieutenant Governor, the continuation of existing representation, a Resident Commissioner or Delegate to the House of Representatives, and the right of Virgin Islanders to vote in national elections for the President and Vice President of the United States; Whereas the mission for self-determination and constitutional reform continues today; Whereas the Virgin Islands of the United States common history with the United States dates back to Alexander Hamilton, who was raised on the island of St. Croix and later became one of the leaders of the American Revolution and the first Secretary of the Treasury; Whereas the people of the Virgin Islands of the United States have made significant contributions to the United States, including— (1) William Leidesdorff of St. Croix, a sea captain, merchant, trader, landowner, civic leader, early California pioneer, and the first Black millionaire in the United States; (2) Camille Pissaro, a French impressionist painter who was born on St. Thomas; (3) Edward Wilmot Blyden, an intellectual, educator, linguist, clergyman, author, statesman, college president, and father of Pan-Africanism; (4) Hubert H. Harrison, a writer, teacher, orator, editor, labor leader, and Renaissance Man ; (5) Morris Simmonds, a German physician and noted pathologist, after whom a disease of the pituitary gland known as Simmonds Disease is named