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West Virginia Beacon Digest. 1957 [6] 2006 [2] Weekly [6] ISSN 1042-8100. LCCN sn85059870. OCLC 12926221. Only West Virginia African American newspaper in the 21st century.
Cyrus, the seventh of eleven children, was born at Point Pleasant on October 7, 1812. His parents were Henry Rupert and Naomi Henkle Rupert. Apparently, Cyrus chose to go to Greenbrier County to be with his brothers, Gideon and Paul, who were running a general store at Clintonville. Cyrus' father, Henry, died in 1835 and most of the family ...
Old Main at Marshall University. McMurran Hall at Shepherd University. Woodburn Hall at West Virginia University. There are forty-four colleges and universities in the U.S. state of West Virginia that are listed under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. These institutions include two research universities, five ...
West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. [note 2] It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and east, Maryland to the east and northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest. West Virginia is the 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the ...
The 2011 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season as members of the Big East Conference. The Mountaineers were led by Dana Holgorsen, who was in his first season as head coach. West Virginia played their home games on Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium ...
Bill Blizzard, labor leader. Julia Bonds, environmental activist; winner of Goldman Prize. Belle Boyd, espionage agent. James Caudy, frontiersman and early settler of present day West Virginia. Larry Gibson, environmental activist; founder of Keeper of the Mountains Foundation. Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln; distant cousin of Tom Hanks.
West Virginia is currently represented in the Senate by Independent Joe Manchin (serving since 2010) and Republican Shelley Moore Capito (serving since 2015), making it one of seven states to have a split United States Senate delegation. Robert Byrd was the state's longest serving senator, served from 1959 until his death in 2010.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of West Virginia from 1861 to 1959. Capital punishment was abolished in West Virginia in 1965. [ 1 ] From 1861 to 1959, 112 people have been executed in West Virginia, [ 2 ] 102 by hanging , 9 by electrocution and 1 by hanging in chains .
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