Was famously known to be a colonial, governor of Virgina from 1641- 1652, making him the longest- serving governor of Virgina. He formally had friendly policies with the Native Americans to form an alliance with them for fosting trading, this caused issues by some of the planters which created Bacons rebellion. Nathaniel Bacon was angered at him for not protecting him and his alliance against the attacks of the Natives and took it up with an election to settle the issue.