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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Famous quotes containing the words politics and/or government:
“The newspaper reader says: this party is destroying itself through such mistakes. My higher politics says: a party that makes such mistakes is finished—it has lost its instinctive sureness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)