West Virginia

West Virginia is one of the fifty states that make up the United States of America. It was admitted to the U.S. on June 20, 1863 as the thirty-fifth state, amidst the American Civil War. It was formed from the northwestern portion of the state of Virginia that wished to remain a free state in the U.S., opposing Virginia's joining of the Confederate States of America. West Virginia is the tenth smallest state by area and the thirty-ninth largest by population.
==State Facts==
State Name 	West Virginia
Capital City 	Charleston
Population 	1, 793, 716 (39/50)
Area 	24, 230 square miles (41/50)
Largest Cities	Charleston, Huntington, Morgantown, Parkersburg, Wheeling,
Fairmont, Weirton, Martinsburg, Beckley, Clarksburg
Counties 	55
== Governors ==
Number	Name 	Birth/Death 	Political Party 	Term
1 	Arthur I. Boreman 	1823-96 (73 years) 	Republican 	1863-69 (6 years)
2 	Daniel D.T. Farnsworth	1819-92 (73 years) 	Republican 	1869 (6 days)
3 	William E. Stevenson 	1820-83 (63 years) 	Republican 	1869-71 (2 years)
4 	John J. Jacob 	1829-93 (64 years) 	Democratic/Independent	1871-77 (6 years)
5 	Henry M. Mathews 	1834-84 (50 years) 	Democratic 	1877-81 (4 years)
6 	Jacob B. Jackson 	1829-93 (64 years) 	Democratic 	1881-85 (4 years)
7 	Emanuel Willis Wilson 	1844-1905 (61 years) 	Democratic 	1885-90 (5 years)
8 	Aretas B. Fleming 	1839-1923 (84 years) 	Democratic 	1890-93 (3 years)
9 	William A. MacCorkle 	1857-1930 (73 years) 	Democratic 	1893-97 (4 years)
10 	George W. Atkinson 	1845-1925 (80 years) 	Republican 	1897-1901 (4 years)
11 	Albert B. White 	1856-1941 (85 years) 	Republican 	1901-05 (4 years)
12 	William M.O. Dawson 	1853-1916 (63 years) 	Republican 	1905-09 (4 years)
13 	William E. Glasscock 	1862-1925 (63 years) 	Republican 	1909-13 (4 years)
14 	Henry D. Hatfield 	1875-1962 (87 years) 	Republican 	1913-17 (4 years)
15 	John J. Cornwell 	1867-1953 (86 years) 	Democratic 	1917-21 (4 years)
16 	Ephraim F. Morgan 	1869-1950 (81 years) 	Republican 	1921-25 (4 years)
17 	Howard Mason Gore 	1877-1947 (70 years) 	Republican 	1925-29 (4 years)
18 	William G. Conley 	1866-1940 (74 years) 	Republican 	1929-33 (4 years)
19 	Herman G. Kump 	1877-1962 (85 years) 	Democratic 	1933-37 (4 years)
20 	Homer A. Holt 	1898-1975 (77 years) 	Democratic 	1937-41 (4 years)
21 	Matthew M. Neely 	1874-1958 (84 years) 	Democratic 	1941-45 (4 years)
22 	Clarence W. Meadows 	1904-61 (57 years) 	Democratic 	1945-49 (4 years)
23 	Okey Patteson 	1898-1989 (91 years) 	Democratic 	1949-53 (4 years)
24 	William C. Marland 	1918-65 (47 years) 	Democratic 	1953-57 (4 years)
25/32 	Cecil H. Underwood 	1922-2008 (86 years) 	Republican 	1957-61 (4 years)
1997-2001 (4 years)
26 	Wally Barron 	1911-2002 (91 years) 	Democratic 	1961-65 (4 years)
27 	Hulett C. Smith 	1918-2012 (94 years) 	Democratic 	1965-69 (4 years)
28/30 	Arch A. Moore Jr. 	1923-2015 (92 years) 	Republican 	1969-77 (8 years)
1985-89 (4 years)
29 	Jay Rockefeller 	1937-Present (85 years)	Democratic 	1977-85 (8 years)
31 	Gaston Caperton 	1940-Present (82 years)	Democratic 	1989-97 (8 years)
33 	Bob Wise 	1948-Present (74 years)	Democratic 	2001-05 (4 years)
34 	Joe Manchin 	1947-Present (75 years)	Democratic 	2005-2010 (5 years)
35 	Earl Ray Tomblin 	1952-Present (70 years)	Democratic 	2010-17 (7 years)
36 	Jim Justice 	1951-Present (71 years)	Democratic/Republican 	2017-Present (5 years)
== U.S. Senators (Class 1) ==
Number	Name 	Birth/Death 	Political Party	Term
1 	Peter G. Van Winkle 	1808-72 (64 years) 	Republican 	1863-69 (6 years)
2 	Arthur I. Boreman 	1823-96 (73 years) 	Republican 	1869-75 (6 years)
3 	Allen T. Caperton 	1810-76 (66 years) 	Democratic 	1875-76 (1 year)
4 	Samuel Price 	1805-84 (79 years) 	Democratic 	1876-77 (1 year)
5 	Frank Hereford 	1825-91 (66 years) 	Democratic 	1877-81 (4 years)
6 	Johnson N. Camden 	1828-1908 (80 years) 	Democratic 	1881-87 (6 years)
7 	Charles James Faulkner	1847-1929 (82 years) 	Democratic 	1887-99 (12 years)
8 	Nathan B. Scott 	1842-1924 (82 years) 	Republican 	1899-1911 (12 years)
9 	William E. Chilton 	1858-1939 (81 years) 	Democratic 	1911-17 (6 years)
10 	Howard Sutherland 	1865-1950 (85 years) 	Republican 	1917-23 (6 years)
11 	Matthew M. Neely 	1874-1958 (84 years) 	Democratic 	1923-29 (6 years)
12 	Henry D. Hatfield 	1875-1962 (87 years) 	Republican 	1929-35 (6 years)
13 	Rush Holt 	1905-55 (50 years) 	Democratic 	1935-41 (6 years)
14 	Harley M. Kilgore 	1893-1956 (63 years) 	Democratic 	1941-56 (15 years)
15 	William Laird III 	1916-74 (58 years) 	Democratic 	1956 (7 months)
16 	Chapman Revercomb 	1895-1979 (84 years) 	Republican 	1956-59 (3 years)
17 	Robert Byrd 	1917-2010 (93 years) 	Democratic 	1959-2010 (51 years)
18 	Carte Goodwin 	1974-Present (48 years)	Democratic 	2010 (3 months)
19 	Joe Manchin 	1947-Present (75 years)	Democratic 	2010-Present (12 years)
== U.S. Senators (Class 2) ==
Number	Name 	Birth/Death 	Political Party	Term
1 	Waitman T. Willey 	1811-1900 (89 years) 	Republican 	1863-71 (8 years)
2 	Henry Gassaway Davis 	1823-1916 (93 years) 	Democratic 	1871-83 (12 years)
3 	John E. Kenna 	1848-93 (45 years) 	Democratic 	1883-93 (10 years)
4 	Johnson N. Camden 	1828-1908 (80 years) 	Democratic 	1893-95 (2 years)
5 	Stephen Benton Elkins 	1841-1911 (70 years) 	Republican 	1895-1911 (16 years)
6 	Davis Elkins 	1876-1959 (83 years) 	Republican 	1911 (22 days)
7 	Clarence Wayland Watson	1864-1940 (76 years) 	Democratic 	1911-13 (2 years)
8 	Nathan Goff Jr. 	1843-1920 (77 years) 	Republican 	1913-19 (6 years)
9 	Davis Elkins 	1876-1959 (83 years) 	Republican 	1919-25 (6 years)
10 	Guy D. Goff 	1866-1933 (67 years) 	Republican 	1925-31 (6 years)
11 	Matthew M. Neely 	1874-1958 (84 years) 	Democratic 	1931-41 (10 years)
12 	Joseph Rosier 	1870-1951 (81 years) 	Democratic 	1941-42 (1 year)
13 	Hugh Ike Shott 	1866-1953 (87 years) 	Republican 	1942-43 (1 year)
14 	Chapman Revercomb 	1895-1979 (84 years) 	Republican 	1943-49 (6 years)
15 	Matthew M. Neely 	1874-1958 (84 years) 	Democratic 	1949-58 (9 years)
16 	John D. Hoblitzell Jr. 	1912-62 (50 years) 	Republican 	1958 (9 months)
17 	Jennings Randolph 	1902-98 (96 years) 	Democratic 	1958-85 (27 years)
18 	Jay Rockefeller 	1937-Present (85 years)	Democratic 	1985-2015 (30 years)
19 	Shelley Moore Capito 	1953-Present (69 years)	Republican 	2015-Present (7 years)
== Current U.S. Representatives ==
District	Name 	Birth 	Political Party	Term
1 	David McKinley	1947 (75 years)	Republican 	2011-Present (11 years)
2 	Alex Mooney 	1971 (51 years)	Republican 	2015-Present (7 years)
3 	Carol Miller 	1950 (72 years)	Republican 	2019-Present (3 years)