List of People From West Virginia - Politics & Government

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