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The House of Delegates has joined the Virginia Senate in voting to abolish Lee-Jackson Day.

The chamber on Thursday approved House Bill 108 from Del. Joe Lindsey, D-Norfolk, in a 55-42 vote. The bill designates Election Day as a state holiday and removes Lee-Jackson Day as a state holiday.

The Senate approved the same bill Jan. 21, hoping to end the yearly tribute to Virginia-born Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson.

Virginia has celebrated Lee’s birthday with a state holiday since 1989. Jackson was added in the early 1990s.

Like states across the country, Virginia started marking the federal holiday for slain civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the mid-1980s, which fell on the same day as Lee-Jackson Day.

Gov. Jim Gilmore, a Republican, called for splitting them into separate holidays in 2000.

House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn, D-Fairfax, addressed the proposed change last month at a breakfast honoring King.