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The State Fair of West Virginia is an annual state fair for West Virginia, United States. It is held annually in mid-August on the State Fairgrounds in Lewisburg. This year's State Fair is scheduled for 8-17 August 2024. The State Fairgrounds consists of a large open park for carnivals and exhibition, grandstands, and several exhibition buildings.
Aug. 10—LEWISBURG — The State Fair of West Virginia opens Thursday, August 11 at 9 a.m. for its 97th year in Lewisburg, West Virginia at 907 Maplewood Avenue. According to a press release sent ...
Since West Virginia became a state on June 20, 1863, it has had 34 attorneys general, of whom 33 men have held the office (the inaugural attorney general, Aquilla B. Caldwell of Ohio County, served two nonconsecutive terms). [8] [9] Caldwell was the first Republican to hold the office, and Joseph Sprigg of Hampshire County was the first ...
As a Republican, he has previously served as the West Virginia State Auditor from 2017 to 2025. He also was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates representing District 35 from 2013 to 2017. [2] On February 28, 2023, he announced he would run for governor of West Virginia to attempt to succeed term limited governor Jim Justice. [3]
Patrick James Morrisey (born December 21, 1967) is an American politician and attorney who is serving as the 37th governor of West Virginia, since 2025.He has previously served as the 34th attorney general of West Virginia from 2013 to 2025.
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 ...
He was the brother of former West Virginia State Supreme Court Justice and state Senate President Warren McGraw. He was elected to the state supreme court for a single 12-year term in 1976. He was elected state attorney general in 1992 and re-elected in 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008. [1] He was the only person to have held both offices.
Jun. 16—West Virginia's Attorney General said Wednesday that he has led a coalition of 24 states in filing formal comments regarding a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission initiative that ...