Politics & Government
Further information: List of Governors of West Virginia- Newton D. Baker, politician
- William Wallace Barron, politician
- John J. Beckley, frontiersman and Librarian of Congress
- Ephraim Bee, frontiersman and politician
- Charles Bent, frontiersman and politician
- Arthur I. Boreman, politician
- Harry F. Byrd, politician
- Robert Byrd, U.S. Senate majority leader, longest-serving member in history of the United States Congress.
- Gaston Caperton, politician
- Shelley Moore Capito, politician
- Thomas R. Carper, economist and politician
- John J. Cornwell, politician
- Henry G. Davis, politician
- John W. Davis, politician and attorney, Democratic Party nominee for U.S. President - 1924
- Stephen Benton Elkins, politician
- Walter Lowrie Fisher, United States Secretary of the Interior
- Mark Funkhouser, politician, Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
- William E. Glasscock, politician
- Nathan Goff, Jr., politician
- Howard Mason Gore, politician
- Henry D. Hatfield, politician
- Ken Hechler, politician and author
- John J. Jacob, politician
- Elizabeth Kee, politician
- John E. Kenna, politician
- Chief Logan, Native American leader
- William A. MacCorkle, politician
- Joe Manchin, politician
- William C. Marland, politician
- Arch A. Moore, Jr., politician
- Dwight Morrow, businessman, politician, diplomat; father-in-law of Charles Lindbergh
- Matthew M. Neely, politician
- Bob Ney, politician
- Okey L. Patteson, politician
- Francis Harrison Pierpont, politician and "Father of West Virginia"
- Nick Rahall, politician
- Jennings Randolph, politician
- Absalom Willis Robertson, politician
- Jay Rockefeller, politician
- Rick Santorum, politician
- Hulett C. Smith, politician
- William E. Stevenson, politician
- Cyrus Vance, United States Secretary of State
- Charles Washington, statesman
- Erik Wells, politician and news anchor
- Bob Wise, politician
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