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The following is a list of the U.S. state of West Virginia's state agencies. Departments and agencies. West Virginia Department of Administration;
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]
Below is a table of West Virginia's state senate district boundary maps, presented chronologically. All redistricting events that took place in West Virginia in 1863 and between 1901 and the current boundaries as of August 2024 are shown.
13th West Virginia legislature [Wikidata] 1877 14th West Virginia legislature [Wikidata] 1879 15th West Virginia legislature [Wikidata] 1881 16th West Virginia legislature [Wikidata] 1883 17th West Virginia legislature [Wikidata] 1885 18th West Virginia legislature [Wikidata] 1887 19th West Virginia legislature [Wikidata] 1889 [3]
In West Virginia, the county is the unit of government, although an unsuccessful attempt to introduce the township system was made in West Virginia's first constitution. Each of the state's 55 counties has a county commission , consisting of three commissioners elected for six years but with terms so arranged that one is up for reelection every ...
The attorney general of West Virginia is the chief legal advisor to the West Virginia state government and is the state's chief law enforcement officer. The office was created by Article VII, Section 1 of the first Constitution of West Virginia in 1863.
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The West Virginia Department of Transportation (WVDOT) is the state agency responsible for transportation in the U.S. state of West Virginia.The Department of Transportation serves an umbrella organization for four subsidiary agencies which are directly responsible for different areas of the state's infrastructure.