The Smiths of West Virginia
- Joseph L. Smith (1880–1962), Mayor of Beckley, West Virginia 1904-1909; West Virginia State Senator 1909-1912; U.S. Representative from West Virginia 1929-1945; Chairman of the West Virginia Democratic Party 1944-1947. Father of Hulett C. Smith.
- Hulett C. Smith (1918-), Chairman of the West Virginia Democratic Party 1956-1962, Governor of West Virginia 1965-1969, Democratic National Committeeman 1969, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1972 2000. Son of Joseph L. Smith.
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“The West is preparing to add its fables to those of the East. The valleys of the Ganges, the Nile, and the Rhine having yielded their crop, it remains to be seen what the valleys of the Amazon, the Plate, the Orinoco, the St. Lawrence, and the Mississippi will produce. Perchance, when, in the course of ages, American liberty has become a fiction of the past,—as it is to some extent a fiction of the present,—the poets of the world will be inspired by American mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)