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Website. www.wvlegislature.gov /Senate1 /president.cfm. The president of the West Virginia Senate is a member of the West Virginia Senate who has been elected to be its president by the other senators. The current Senate president is Craig Blair, who has been in office since January 2021. In addition to serving as the Senate's presiding officer ...
The West Virginia Senate is the upper house of the West Virginia Legislature. There are seventeen senatorial districts. Each district has two senators who serve staggered four-year terms. Although the Democratic Party held a supermajority in the Senate as recently as 2015, Republicans now dominate in the chamber, and hold 31 seats to the ...
Craig Blair. Craig Philip Blair (born October 17, 1959) is an American politician and a Republican member of the West Virginia Senate representing District 15 [1] since January 12, 2013. Blair served non-consecutively in the West Virginia Legislature from January 2003 until January 2011 in the West Virginia House of Delegates in the District 52 ...
Senate president election. On January 13, 2021, the West Virginia Senate convened to elect a president for the 85th Legislature. Republican leader and incumbent president Mitch Carmichael lost renomination, leaving the presidency open to a new senator.
The 2020 United States Senate election in West Virginia was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of West Virginia, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections.
West Virginia University College of Law. Jeffrey Vincent Kessler (born November 16, 1955) is an American politician and former Democratic member of the West Virginia Senate in the United States, representing the 2nd district from 1997 to 2017. He is the former President of the Senate/Lieutenant Governor, Minority Leader of the Senate, Acting ...
The 2023 West Virginia Senate Presidential election was held on January 11, 2023. On August 31, 2022, Republican senator and former chair of the Senate Education Committee Patricia Rucker announced that she would challenge incumbent president Craig Blair in the election. [ 6 ]
The 2024 West Virginia Senate elections will be held on November 5, 2024, with 17 of the chamber's 34 seats up for election. This will take place alongside elections to the House of Delegates, as well as a number of statewide elected positions and elections to Congress and the Presidency.