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The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
Wooton was a law clerk for Judge John A. Field Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1971 to 1972; an assistant West Virginia Attorney General from 1972 to 1974; and an assistant Raleigh County prosecutor from 1974 to 1977. He practiced law in Beckley with the firm Wooton, Wooton & Fragile from 1977 until 1994 ...
1875 - Peter Cline Buffington, first mayor of Huntington, West Virginia; 1886 - Charles B. Hoard, former United States House of Representatives; 1900 - Eustace Gibson, former Speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates; 1905 - Delos W. Emmons, co-founder of Huntington, West Virginia; 1930 - James A. Hughes, former United States House of ...
Springfield is a census-designated place (CDP) in northwestern Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 census , Springfield had a population of 477. [ 3 ] Springfield is located north of Romney along West Virginia Route 28 at its junction with Green Spring Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 1) and Springfield Pike (West ...
No court proceedings convened in Hampshire County between 1861 and 1864 [5] [6] and the county's courthouse was used as a stable by Union soldiers stationed in Romney during the war. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Upon learning of this, White was again concerned for the safety of the county's records and proceeded to load land registration records ledger books ...
Robert White (May 28, 1876 – August 15, 1935) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician in the U.S. state of West Virginia.White served four consecutive terms as the Prosecuting Attorney for Hampshire County, West Virginia (1912–1928), and served one term in the West Virginia Senate (1931–1935), representing the state's 15th Senate district in the 40th and 41st Sessions of the ...
Name Party Tenure Residence county Elected Predecessor Successor Composition 1: Ralph Lazier Berkshire: Republican: Jun. 20, 1863 – Dec. 31, 1866: Monongalia
It lies along West Virginia Route 3 and the Greenbrier River to the east of the city of Hinton, the county seat of Summers County. [2] Its elevation is 1,526 feet (465 m), and it is located at about 37°39′2″N 80°45′4″W / 37.65056°N 80.75111°W / 37.65056; -80.75111 (37.6506762, -80.7511921