Glenville is a town in and the county seat of Gilmer County,West Virginia,United States,along the Little Kanawha River. The population was 1,128 at the 2020 census. It is the home of Glenville State University.
Lucius Lyon was a U.S. statesman from the state of Michigan. Along with Louis Campau,Lucius Lyon is remembered as one of the founding fathers of Grand Rapids,Michigan,the state's second-largest city. A Democrat,he served as a Delegate to the U.S. House from Michigan Territory (1833–1835),a U.S. Senator from Michigan (1837–1839),and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's second congressional district (1843–1845).
Stephen Benton Elkins was an American industrialist and politician. He served as the Secretary of War between 1891 and 1893. He served in the United States Congress as a Delegate from the Territory of New Mexico and a Senator from West Virginia.
James Barbour was an American politician,planter,and lawyer. He served as a delegate from Orange County,Virginia,in the Virginia General Assembly and as speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. He was the 18th Governor of Virginia and the first Governor to reside in the current Virginia Governor's Mansion. After the War of 1812,Barbour became a U.S. Senator and the United States Secretary of War (1825–1828).
Henry Gassaway Davis was a millionaire and Senator from West Virginia. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904.
Daniel Smith was a surveyor,an American Revolutionary War patriot,and twice a United States Senator from Tennessee.
Glenville State University (GSU) is a public university in Glenville,West Virginia.
Waitman Thomas Willey was an American lawyer and politician from Morgantown,West Virginia. One of the founders of the state of West Virginia during the American Civil War,he served in the United States Senate representing first the Restored Government of Virginia and became one of the new state of West Virginia's first two senators. He is one of only two people in U.S. History to represent more than one state in the U.S. Senate,the other being James Shields.
A county surveyor is a public official in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Joseph Rosier was a United States senator from West Virginia. Born in Wilsonburg,West Virginia,he attended the public schools and graduated from Salem College in 1895. In 1890,Rosier was a teacher of the village school at Bristol,West Virginia and was principal of the public schools of Salem in 1891 and 1892;in 1893 and 1894 he was superintendent of schools of Harrison County,West Virginia and was a member of the faculty of Salem College from 1894 to 1896. He was a teacher in the State normal school at Glenville,West Virginia from 1896 to 1897 and was a member of the faculty of the State Teachers' College at Fairmont,West Virginia from 1897 to 1900. He was superintendent of schools of Fairmont from 1900–1915 and was president of Fairmont State College,Fairmont from 1915–1945 and then president emeritus.
Edward Gay Rohrbough was a Republican United States Representative from West Virginia. He was born in 1874,near Buckhannon,West Virginia,in Upshur County,West Virginia. He served in the Seventy-eighth and Eightieth Congress. He died December 12,1956.
James John Floyd (1750–1783) was an early settler of St. Matthews,Kentucky,and helped lay out Louisville. In Kentucky he served as a Colonel of the Kentucky Militia in which he participated in raids with George Rogers Clark and later became one of the first judges of Kentucky.
The Government of West Virginia is modeled after the Government of the United States,with three branches:the executive,consisting of the Governor of West Virginia and the other elected constitutional officers;the legislative,consisting of the West Virginia Legislature which includes the Senate and the House of Delegates;and the judicial,consisting of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and lower courts.
Robert Bruce King is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Nathaniel Massie was a frontier surveyor in the Ohio Country who became a prominent land owner,politician,and soldier. He founded fourteen early towns in what became the State of Ohio,including its first capital,Chillicothe. In 1807,the Ohio General Assembly declared him the winner of the election for governor,but he refused the office.
Jay Wolfe is an American business owner and former West Virginia state senator,and U.S. Senate candidate.
Ursula Jae (Marshall) Spears was an American politician. Spears served in the West Virginia House of Delegates 1974–1980 and then the West Virginia State Senate 1980–1992. She was the first woman to serve as Senate Majority Whip and the first and only,female to chair the powerful Senate Finance Committee. Spears pioneered the participation of women in the legislative process. Elected in 1974 as one of only eight women to the 100-member House of Delegates,she saw,during her 18 years of service,the female membership of that body grow to nearly 25 percent.
Richard Fairfax Hamill was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach (1920–1921) and head basketball coach (1918–1923) at his alma mater,Davis &Elkins College in Elkins,West Virginia.
The 2022 West Virginia Senate elections were held on November 8,2022,and elected 17 of the chamber's 34 members. This coincided with elections in the House of Delegates,and the election of West Virginia's two representatives. Following the 2020 census,this was the first West Virginia Senate election held after redistricting. Primary elections were held on May 10,2022.
David Allen Stover is an American politician serving as a member of the West Virginia Senate from the 9th district. Elected in November 2020,he assumed office on December 1,2020.
