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Lewisburg is a city in and the county seat of Greenbrier County,West Virginia,United States. The population was 3,930 at the 2020 census.
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Homer Adams Holt was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 20th governor of West Virginia from 1937 to 1941. Born in Lewisburg,West Virginia,he attended the Greenbrier Military School there and then went on to graduate from Washington and Lee University in 1918,where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. After serving in the army during World War I,he returned to Washington and Lee in 1920 and studied law,receiving his degree in 1923. In 1924,he married Isabel Wood.
John James Allen was a Virginia slave owner,lawyer,judge and politician. He served in the Virginia Senate,the 23rd United States Congress,and for 25 years as judge and President of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. He supported Virginia's secession during the American Civil War,and all his surviving sons joined the Confederate States Army,the two youngest dying in the conflict.
Warren Miller was a lawyer and Republican politician from West Virginia who served as a United States representative in the 54th and 55th United States Congresses,as well as both houses of the West Virginia legislature Senate and on the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
Robert Bruce King is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Robin Jean Davis is an American jurist who served on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. First elected to fill an unexpired term in 1996,Davis later won full twelve-year terms in 2000 and 2012. However,Davis retired before the end of her second full term in August 2018 after the West Virginia House Judiciary Committee named Davis in articles of impeachment during the Impeachment of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.
William Alexander Harrison was a Virginia lawyer,judge and politician who helped found the state of West Virginia. He represented Harrison County,Virginia in the Virginia House of Delegates for three successive terms before the American Civil War and strongly opposed Virginia's secession. He helped form the new state of West Virginia and served as a circuit court judge during the American Civil War before winning election as one of the first judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.
The John A. North House is a historic house museum and archives located in Lewisburg,Greenbrier County,West Virginia. Currently,the North House is Greenbrier County's only historic house museum. Since 1976,The Greenbrier Historical Society has operated within the North House,and in 1992 the North House was officially purchased by the Greenbrier Historical Society. In 1992,the home officially became known as "North House Museum,Greenbrier Historical Society."
Joseph Marcellus McWhorter was a West Virginia lawyer,politician,educator,and judge.
Alexander Ferdinand Mathews was an American lawyer,banker,and university board director in the U.S. State of West Virginia. He served as a Confederate officer and aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Henry A. Wise during the American Civil War.
Mason Mathews was an American merchant and politician in the U.S. State of Virginia. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates,representing Greenbrier County from 1859–1865 as a Whig. This period included the secession of Virginia and the resulting American Civil War of 1861–1865. Though Mathews opposed secession,he chose to support the Confederate States of America when Virginia seceded. Throughout the war,much of his efforts were directed toward the Confederate defense of western Virginia. When his home of Greenbrier County was taken into the new State of West Virginia in 1863,he continued to represent Greenbrier County in Virginia's Confederate legislature in Richmond until war's end. He was a member of the Mathews political family.
Adam Clarke Snyder was a justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court.
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Archer Mathews was a United States pioneer,legislator,and city founder in the colony of Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Greenbrier County from 1780 to 1782.
John Mathews was a 19th-century American surveyor,politician and lawyer. A Federalist,he was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Greenbrier County from 1798 to 1802,also serving as clerk of court for Greenbrier County from 1831 to 1849.
Thayer Melvin was an American lawyer,politician,and judge in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Melvin served as the fourth Attorney General of West Virginia from January 1,1867,until July 1,1869,and twice served as the presiding circuit judge of West Virginia's First Judicial District in the state's Northern Panhandle.
Haymond Maxwell was an American lawyer,politician,judge,and justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.
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References
- ↑ Greenbrier Historical Society (1938) Greenbrier Historical Society Historical Booklet, Greenbrier Co., 1938. http://www.lewisburg.org/history/mathewsbio.htm Retrieved 2012-10-19
- online excerpt from Greenbrier County 160th anniversary booklet
- The Green Bag: A useless but entertaining magazine for lawyers, Volume 12 (1900), ed. Horace Fuller, p. 297-8.
- West Virginia Archives and History - Homer A. Holt
- 1. Family Tree Confirming lineage of descendants