People -WV -2019

Served three terms as Governor

Keeper of State receipts

1949 Sec. of Defense (Clarksburg native)

Mama’s Hand singer

First Female Senator from WV

Miss 4th July Goodbye writer

Won a 2014 Football title coaching Florida State

County is named of 1825-32 VP of US

Song “Leap of Faith”

People ride this train through ”The Trough.”

Served as Governor of New Mexico during Mexican-American War

Marshall + Jaguars + QB

Heavyweight Champ whose parents were from Logan

Writer of “The Beloved.”

Designer of Tunnels, roads, & served in Napoleon’s army

2006 become largest serving US senator

Math Textbook writer

First female Mayor of WV

Mountain Stage host

Star of “She wore a Yellow Ribbon”

Marshall + Jets + QB

First public High School Students were in the county of

NCAA rebounding record -Marshall

Poet Laureate of WV until her 2012 death

Last WWI vet.

Writer of ”Ben Hurr”

Appalichian, My Land —writer

Wrote song “WV Hills “

First to see WV (explorer)

What’s my line and pie thrower from WV

Father of Methodism

Served as governor for a few days:

US Senator who is the father of 18 year olds getting the right to vote

1st Female College President in WV

1st Woman to dunk in a game

Turkey Creek Banjo player

Community of Bradley is named for this WWII General

Cardiovascular Surgeon & artificial Heart

Only Super Bowl MVP on a losing team

Civil War leader who captured Buckhannon

Voice of the Mountaineers

Queen Silvia is crowned at this festival

Cornelius Calvin Sales Jr. is better known as

Dis. Of Christ Church

First ELECTED Woman as Sec. of State

First Poet Laureate of WV

County named for a hero of Battle of Bunker Hill

Writer of “Stroming Heaven”

Huntington native who won a Pulitzer Prize for editing in 2016

First African American Admitted to the WV Bar

1934; the “Boy Senator”

Author of “How Washington Really Works”

Designed the state seal & handled immigration issues for some time

Traitor of John Island

1st WV Historian

WV President of the United Mine workers

Sec. Of State, Governor, & 2010 became US Senator

Sec. of the Navy under President Hayes

Elected to Pro football HOF in 2018

Teddy Roosevelt son has this town named after him

First Civil War amputee

WV Governor during WWI

Civil Rights Leader who preached in Charleston in 1960

Little giant of Jazz

Designer of Weston Memorial Hospital (from Baltimore)

Girl with the “Lalaby (sp) voice”

Lord of the Rings actor

Wrote “Follow the Furies.”

Director of “Airspeed.”

The “WV Hillbilly” editor

Silent Film star from WV

Clarksburg is named for

Scores 135 points in a basketball game

“Where I Belong” song writer

Victor and colonial leader of Point Pleasant

1984 gold medal in gymnastics

Served with Lewis and Clarke and May have had bad ....

longest serving President of the Senate in State History

Last place in WV where people could purchase liquid from a state store

“Some Kind of Wonderful” songwriter

Mattewan Sherriff who was shot with Ed Chambers in Welch Courthouse Steps

Head coach of Clemson until 2008

First Gov. of WV

Wrote Stonewall Jackson Biography and won Remington Medal in Pharmacy

Screen Writer for “Big Chill” & ”Raiders of the Lost Ark”

1957 Superintendent of Schools

1938–This NFL team defeated the Pittsburg Pirates (later Steelers) in Charleston

1st Solider killed in Civil War

Two Union Presidents who served in WV during Civil War

Host of Hollywood Squares

Old Wagoneer Who has a WV county named after him

APPOINTED to succeed Robert C. Byrd as US Senator from WV (short - time)

Founder of Grandparents day

Leaders of the miners at the battle of Blair Mountain

1st African American Brigadier General

First settler of WV

Fool’s Parade

Governor of the restored Virginia

Governor who was on the “College Board.”

Wrote the ”Bridge at Remagen”

Founder of Mothers Day

First Woman to practice medicine in WV

Become WVU football coach in 2018

Father of “Black history”

“Life in an Iron Mill”

County named after 3rd President

On the GM Board for Code of Conduct monitoring:

Lurch on the Adams Family

Had third paintings at the World’s Fair

Played “Wimpy” in Popeye

Martinsburg HOF baseballer — RBI record

Governor who in the 1950s taxed natural resources (attempted)

2008 NFL rookie rushing leader

Former Head Coach of Auburn

WWII Medal of Honor winner from WV (Super Bowl coin flipper, and Battleship named after)

Governor who came with the VISTA program and was president of WV Wesleyan