Politics
- Carl George Bachmann - U.S. Congressman, Republican Minority Whip 1931-1933
- Clark S. Barnes - West Virginia Senate, District 15, 2004-Present
- William Wallace Barron - 26th Governor of West Virginia
- Irene C. Berger - federal judicial nominee for the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
- Frank L. Bowman was an American politician who represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives
- Becky Cain - past president of the League of Women Voters
- William G. Conley - 18th Governor of West Virginia
- William Harrison Courtney - special assistant to President Clinton
- Joseph DiSarro (Ph.D.), professor and chair in the Department of Political Science at Washington & Jefferson College.
- David Ginsburg (1912–2010), presidential adviser and executive director of the Kerner Commission.
- William E. Glasscock - 13th Governor of West Virginia
- Howard Mason Gore - 17th Governor of West Virginia
- Kathleen M. Hawk - Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
- Robert Lynn Hogg - Represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1930–1933
- Sen. Harley M. Kilgore - chairman of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization during World War II
- Nancy Jacobs - Maryland State Senator (1973).
- Tim Mahoney (politician) - U.S. Congressman from Florida
- Darrell McGraw - Current West Virginia Attorney General, Former Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court
- Joe Manchin - The 34th Governor of West Virginia and United States Senator from West Virginia
- William C. Marland - 24th Governor of West Virginia
- M. Blane Michael - Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Alan Mollohan - United States Congressman
- Arch A. Moore, Jr. - 28th & 30th Governor of West Virginia
- Ephraim F. Morgan - 16th Governor of West Virginia
- Matthew M. Neely - 22nd Governor of West Virginia
- Asra Nomani - former Wall Street Journal reporter, author and Islamic reform and feminism activist
- Tom Pridemore - West Virginia House of Delegates and football player
- Jeff Pyle - Pennsylvania State Representative
- Stuart F. Reed - politician who represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives
- Paul S. Stull - member Maryland House of Delegates.
- John G. Trueschler, former member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1979).
- Cecil H. Underwood - Youngest (25th) and oldest (32nd) Governor of West Virginia
- Joseph M. Devine - Governor of North Dakota from 1898 to 1899
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—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
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