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West Virginia is currently represented in the Senate by Republicans Shelley Moore Capito (serving since 2015), and Jim Justice (serving since 2025). Robert Byrd was the state's longest serving senator, served from 1959 until his death in 2010. He is also the longest serving Senator in United States history. [1]
Joseph Anthony Manchin III (/ ˈ m æ n tʃ ɪ n / MAN-chin; born August 24, 1947) is an American businessman and retired politician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia from 2010 to 2025. He was West Virginia's only congressional Democrat until he registered as an independent in 2024.
She was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from West Virginia [2] and the first Republican to win a full term in the Senate from West Virginia since 1942. She was reelected in 2020, defeating Democratic nominee Paula Jean Swearengin, and becoming the first West Virginia Republican reelected to the Senate since 1907.
Byrd was re-elected to the Senate eight times. He was West Virginia's junior senator for his first four terms; his colleague from 1959 to 1985 was Jennings Randolph, who had been elected on the same day as Byrd's first election in a special election to fill the seat of the late Senator Matthew Neely. Byrd official portrait as a congressman
Gov. Jim Justice's victory in West Virginia signals a GOP resurgence as he takes over Joe Manchin's Senate seat.
James Conley Justice II [2] (born April 27, 1951) is an American politician and businessman serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from West Virginia.A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2017 to 2025 as the 36th governor of West Virginia.
The West Virginia Senate is the upper house of the West Virginia Legislature. There are seventeen senatorial districts. There are seventeen senatorial districts. Each district has two senators who serve staggered four-year terms.
The West Virginia Democrat needs to decide whether to run as an independent for governor — or to keep his current Senate seat — by the weekend, at least 60 days before the Aug. 1 deadline for ...