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 and 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, and a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame
• Frank Loria: Virginia Tech Hokies football All American player. He later 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 (boxer): 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: American 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 who has appeared 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: American merchant, lawyer, and politician, including a United States Senator, one of West Virginia's founders.
• William W. Chapman: United States politician 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
• Nathan Goff Jr.: congressman and United States Secretary of the Navy
• Guy D. Goff: son of Nathan Goff Jr., Served as a US senator and the US DA for the eastern district of Wisconsin
• William S. Haymond US House of Representative, representing Indiana. Civil War surgeon in the Union Army.
• D. Rolland Jennings, state delegate ^[2]
• 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, served from October 23, 1820, to March 3, 1823
• 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), American politician
• JB McCuskey (born 1981), Attorney General of West Virginia
• Joseph M. Minard: Democratic member of the West Virginia Senate
• Dave Nutter: Virginia House of Delegates
• Roy Earl Parrish: American 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
• Mabel Grouitch: American surgical nurse who worked with the Red Cross during World War I
• Robert Graetz: Lutheran clergyman who, as the white pastor of a black congregation in Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Rights Activist
• 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.