This current U.S. senator served as West Virginia's governor from 1977 to 1985
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Charles H. Percy - Wikipedia  Charles Harting Percy (September 27, 1919  September 17, 2011), known as Chuck Percy, was an American businessman and politician. He was president of the Bell & Howell Corporation from 1949 to 1964. In 1966, he was elected to the United States Senate from Illinois as a Republican; he served for three .... Percy served in the Senate until the end of his third term in January 1985,...
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List of Governors of Virginia - Wikipedia  The following is a list of the Governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The governor is the ... The governor could serve up to three years at a time, and once out of office, could not serve ... Saturday after the second Wednesday in January by the 1971 and current constitution. ..... West Virginia Division of Culture and History.
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List of Governors of West Virginia - Wikipedia  The Governor of West Virginia is the head of the executive branch of West Virginia's state ... Tomblin, as President of the West Virginia Senate, acted as governor from .... As of May 2015, there are four former U.S. governors of West Virginia who ... time, the oldest of whom is Jay Rockefeller (served 1977-1985, born 1937).
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Jay Rockefeller - Wikipedia  John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV (born June 18, 1937) served as a United States Senator from West Virginia from 1985 to 2015. He was first elected to the Senate in 1984, while in office as Governor of West Virginia, a position he held from 1977 to 1985. .... and whether any current or former executives had knowledge of or played a...
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List of United States Senators from West Virginia - Wikipedia  This is a list of United States Senators from West Virginia. Its senators belong to Classes 1 and .... June, 19, 1935, Senator-elect was not yet qualified to serve. ... but delayed term to finish term as Governor of West Virginia, January 15, 1985  ... The most recent Class 2 senator to die was Jennings Randolph (1958-1985) on...
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Dale Bumpers, former Arkansas governor and U.S. Senator, dies at ...  Jan 2, 2016 ... Dale Bumpers, a former Arkansas governor and U.S. senator who earned the ... speech defending Bill Clinton during the president's impeachment trial, has died. ... nomination in 1970, against a field that included former Gov. ... Six years later, Bumpers defeated future Arkansas governor and current...
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Bill Weld's Revolution that Wasn't :: Jeff Jacoby  IN HIS JANUARY 1991 INAUGURAL ADDRESS, Governor William Weld put the ... He also despised William Bulger, the vindictive, arm-twisting Senate president. ... Did the first Republican to be elected governor of Massachusetts since 1970 ..... In November 1995, as he prepared to run against U.S. Senator John Kerry,...
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Cecil H. Underwood - Wikipedia  Cecil Harland Underwood (November 5, 1922  November 24, 2008) was an American Republican Party politician from West Virginia, known for the length of his career. He was the 25th and 32nd Governor of West Virginia from 1957-61, and from ... Underwood's 1956 election as Governor of West Virginia marked the first...
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Presidents of the United States from Virginia - Encyclopedia Virginia  Apr 12, 2012 ... Subscribe to our newsletter ... The following Virginians served as president of the United States. ... He also represented Fairfax County in the first two Revolutionary ... in the colonial and state legislatures, as governor of Virginia (17791781), ... James Monroe , the fifth president, was born on April 28, 1758,...
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Shelley Moore Capito - Wikipedia  Shelley Wellons Moore Capito (born November 26, 1953) is the junior United States Senator ... Capito was the only Republican in the West Virginia congressional .... the Senate, "running for two offices simultaneously is not who I am as a person. ... Rockefeller dropped out of the race on January 11, 2013, making Capito the...
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If This Is the Senate's Soul . . . - Washington Post  Jun 18, 2006 ... Last Monday, he became the longest-serving senator ever, with a ... Byrd is indeed a self-taught, self-made man who remains beloved in West Virginia. ... In fairness, Byrd has repeatedly apologized for his stint in the Klan...
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Robert Byrd - Wikipedia  Robert Carlyle "Bob" Byrd was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010. He was the longest-serving U.S. Senator and, at the time of his death, the ...... Fellow Democratic Senator from West Virginia Jay Rockefeller: Senator Byrd...
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SKETCHES OF NEW GOVERNORS - The Washington Post  November 7, 1996 ... He practiced law, owned a small farm and became president of a company ... When Cecil H. Underwood was first elected governor of West ... the office again, an election that will make him the oldest chief executive in the state's history. ... Pritt, whom he portrayed as too liberal for the Mountain State.
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College of Law celebrates Commencement May 11; welcomes ...  Apr 4, 2012 ... Former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle will serve as the ... Quayle's political career includes election to Congress in 1976, at age 29; to the Senate in 1980, age 33; and election as vice president of the United States in 1988, age 41. He served as the 44th vice president under President George Herbert...
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NOT ALL VOTERS HAD PROBLEM WITH AGE ISSUE | Deseret News  Nov 10, 1996 ... With much media fanfare, South Carolina re-elected Sen. ... 10, 1996 12:00 a.m. ... But Cecil Underwood of West Virginia is also an interesting story. ... a Republican, became the Mountain State's youngest-ever governor in ... On Tuesday, on his 74th birthday, Underwood became the state's oldest governor,...
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Cecil H. Underwood Collection  Underwood first ventured into politics in 1944 when he was elected to the West Virginia ... In 1996, Cecil Underwood defeated Democrat Charlotte Pritt to become the state's ..... Future: Capitalizing on our Assets in a Nuclear Age, Governor Cecil Underwood .... Program, 21st Mountain State Forest Festival, October 3-5, 1957
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Robert Byrd - Wikipedia  Robert Carlyle "Bob" Byrd was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010. He was the longest-serving U.S. Senator and, at the time of his death, the .... He became the longest-serving senator in American history on June 12,...
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Jimmy Carter - Wikipedia  ... served two terms as a Georgia State Senator, from 1963 to 1967, and one as the Governor of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975. He was elected President in 1976,...
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Robert Byrd - Wikipedia  Robert Carlyle "Bob" Byrd was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the ... Byrd is also the only West Virginian to have served in both houses of the ... Byrd led the Democratic caucus as Senate Majority Leader from 1977 to .... cast his 18,000th vote on June 21, 2007, the most of any senator in history.
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The Arena: - Gaston Caperton Bio - Politico  Gaston Caperton, a former two-term governor of West Virginia, is the eighth ... greater appreciation of globalization's influence on education in the United States.
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L. Douglas Wilder Biography - Grandson of Slaves, Entered Politics ...  On January 14, 1990, L. Douglas Wilder was sworn in as governor of Virginia, ... Wilder became Virginia's 66th governor and the nation's first elected black governor. ... to run for the Democratic nomination in the 1992 U.S. presidential election. ... After high school, he was barred from even considering the state's all-white...