In 1861 delegates of the northern and western counties of the U.S. State of
Virginia denounced the secession of the state from the Union and proclaimed
a separate State of Kanawha - soon to be renamed West Virginia - loyal to the
federal government and formally admitted into the Union in 1863.
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STATE OFFICERS
Governors
1869 - 1871 William Erskine Stevenson 1820 - 1883
1871 - 1877 John Jeremiah Jacob 1829 - 1893
1877 - 1881 Henry Mason Mathews 1834 - 1884
1881 - 1885 Jacob Beeson Jackson 1829 - 1893
1885 - 1890 Emanuel Willis Wilson 1844 - 1909
1890 - 1893 Aretas Brooks Fleming 1839 - 1923
1893 - 1897 William Alexander MacCorkle 1857 - 1930
1897 - 1901 George Wesley Atkinson 1845 - 1925
1901 - 1905 Albert Blakeslee White 1856 - 1941
1905 - 1909 William Mercer Owens Dawson 1853 - 1916
1909 - 1913 William Ellsworth Glasscock 1862 - 1925
1913 - 1917 Henry Drury Hatfield 1875 - 1962
1917 - 1921 John Jacob Cornwell 1867 - 1953
1921 - 1925 Ephraim Franklin Morgan 1869 - 1950
1925 - 1929 Howard Mason Gore 1887 - 1947
1929 - 1933 William Gustavus Conley 1866 - 1940
1933 - 1937 Herman Guy Kump 1877 - 1962
1937 - 1941 Homer Adams Holt 1898 - 1975
1941 - 1945 Matthew Mansfield Neely 1874 - 1958
1945 - 1949 Clarence Watson Meadows 1904 - 1961
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