List of people from Clarksburg, West Virginia

This is a list of people who were born in, lived in, or are closely associated with the city of Clarksburg, West Virginia .

Athletics

• Babe Barna: Major League Baseball Player 1937–1943
• Rex Bumgardner: professional football player, Buffalo Bills (1948–1949) and Cleveland Browns (1950–1952)
• Harry Courtney: professional baseball pitcher and professional football player 1919–1922
• Jimbo Fisher: former head coach of the Texas A&M Aggies football team
• Bert Hamric: Major League Baseball player
• John David Jamerson: standout NCAA basketball player for Ohio University; NBA player selected by the Miami Heat in the 1st round (15th overall) of the 1990 NBA draft
• Tuffy Knight: former coach in Canadian university football, member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame
• Frank Loria: Virginia Tech Hokies football All American player; died in the Southern Airlines Flight 932 airplane crash that killed most of Marshall University's football team, on November 14, 1970
• Ken Moore: professional football player for the New York Giants
• Thomas Thomas: heavyweight boxer, once rated #6 in the world

Arts & entertainment

• Tony Anthony: actor, producer, director, and screenwriter
• Hugh Aynesworth: author and journalist
• Phyllis Curtin: opera soprano
• Martha Gandy Fales: art historian and curator; recipient of the Charles F. Montgomery Prize (1995) from the Decorative Arts Society
• Pare Lorentz: film director
• Peter Marshall: host of game show Hollywood Squares
• Mike Patrick: ESPN sportscaster
• Melville Davisson Post: author of the Uncle Abner detective fiction series from 1911 to 1928
• Jay Randolph: sportscaster, son of senator Jennings Randolph
• Emily Shaffer: actress ^[1]
• Patty Weaver: actress, The Young and the Restless (1982–present), Days of Our Lives (1974–1982)
• Sherilyn Wolter: actress in television soap operas
• Kirsten Wyatt: Broadway actress, Grease (2007–present)

Politics

• W. Robert Blair: Illinois politician
• Fred H. Caplan: former justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
• John S. Carlile: merchant, lawyer, and politician, including a United States senator; one of West Virginia's founders
• William W. Chapman: politician in Iowa and Oregon
• John J. Davis: U.S. congressman, helped found West Virginia
• John W. Davis: Democratic Party nominee for president of the United States in 1924
• Guy D. Goff: son of Nathan Goff Jr., served as a US senator and the US DA for the eastern district of Wisconsin
• Nathan Goff Jr.: congressman and United States Secretary of the Navy
• William S. Haymond: US House of Representatives, representing Indiana; Civil War surgeon in the Union Army
• Samuel Lewis Hays: 19th-century United States senator
• Lynn Hornor: represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives
• Edward B. Jackson: member of the 16th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Pindall and reelected to the 17th Congress
• D. Rolland Jennings: state delegate ^[2]
• Charles S. Lewis: member of the 33rd Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John F. Snodgrass ^[3]
• Lloyd Lowndes Jr.: governor of Maryland
• Bruce Marks (born 1957): politician
• JB McCuskey (born 1981): attorney general of West Virginia
• Joseph M. Minard: Democratic member of the West Virginia Senate
• Dave Nutter: member of Virginia House of Delegates
• Roy Earl Parrish: politician ^[4]
• Stuart F. Reed: politician who represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives

Other

• Howard Mason Gore: United States Secretary of Agriculture under president Calvin Coolidge
• Robert Graetz: Lutheran clergyman; the white pastor of a black congregation in Montgomery, Alabama; civil rights activist
• Mabel Grouitch: surgical nurse who worked with the Red Cross during World War I
• William Lowther Jackson: Confederate general during the American Civil War
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson: Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War
• Porter Jarvis: president of Swift & Company, Chicago
• Louis A. Johnson: United States Secretary of Defense
• Frederick Mosteller: founding chairman of Harvard's statistics department
• Elliott Northcott: federal judge appointed by President Calvin Coolidge on April 6, 1927
• Cyrus Vance: United States Secretary of State
• Sam Wetzel: US Army general
• Jean Yancey: women's small business consultant, motivational speaker

References

1. "Emily Shaffer". IMDb . Archived from the original on March 26, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
2. "West Virginia House of Delegates". www.wvlegislature.gov. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
3. "LEWIS, Charles Swearinger, (1821 - 1878)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
4. "Roy E. Parrish". The Clarksburg Telegram . May 2, 1912. p. 5. Retrieved July 21, 2023.