Lucas, West Virginia | |
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  Lucas  Lucas | |
| Coordinates: 38°11′31″N81°2′21″W / 38.19194°N 81.03917°W Coordinates: 38°11′31″N81°2′21″W / 38.19194°N 81.03917°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | West Virginia |
| County | Fayette |
| Elevation | 1,365 ft (416 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| GNIS ID | 1555008 [1] |
Lucas is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. It was also known as Eary or Wood.
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the northeast, Maryland to the east and northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest. West Virginia is the 41st-largest state by area and ranks 38th in population, with a population of 1,795,045 residents. The capital and largest city is Charleston.
Shepherdstown is a town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, located in the lower Shenandoah Valley along the Potomac River. Home to Shepherd University, the town's population was 1,734 at the time of the 2010 census.
Virginia Union University (VUU) is a private historically black university in Richmond, Virginia. It took its present name in 1899 upon the merger of two older schools, Richmond Theological Institute and Wayland Seminary, each founded after the end of American Civil War by the American Baptist Home Mission Society. In 1932, Hartshorn Memorial College, a women's college, merged with VUU.
Henry Lee Lucas was an American serial killer whose crimes spanned from 1960 to 1983. He was convicted of murdering 11 people and sentenced to death for the murder of Debra Jackson, though his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1998. Lucas rose to infamy after confessing to more than 100 murders to the Texas Rangers and other law enforcement officials while in prison. He died of congestive heart failure in 2001.
At the conclusion of the NCAA men's and women's Division I basketball championships, a media panel selects a Most Outstanding Player. The MOP usually is awarded to a member of the Championship team. There have been 12 instances in which the winner was not on the championship team. The last man to win the award despite not being on the Championship team was Hakeem Olajuwon (Houston) in 1983. Dawn Staley (Virginia) was the only woman to do so, when she won the award in 1991.
Daniel Bedinger Lucas, was a Confederate officer, poet, lawyer and ultimately justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court. He was the son of United States Senator William Lucas.
Edwards Lucas was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer, merchant and storekeeper from Virginia. He was the brother of William Lucas.
William Lucas was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia.
Lucas or LUCAS may refer to:
Robert Lucas was the 12th Governor of the U.S. state of Ohio, serving from 1832 to 1836. He served as the first Governor of Iowa Territory from 1838 to 1841.
Lillie Louise Boone Lucas is a Virginia state senator, representing the 18th District in the southeast of the state since 1992. She is the floor leader of her Democratic colleagues in the state Senate. Democrats won a majority of seats in the 2019 Virginia Senate election, so Lucas succeeded Republican Stephen Newman as the Virginia Senate's President pro tempore. She is the first woman and first African American to hold that office.
Rion Hall is a late Federal style house near Halltown, West Virginia. Built in 1836, it consists of a three-story brick house with a two-story kitchen wing connected by a wood hyphen. The house was used as a headquarters for General Philip H. Sheridan during the American Civil War.
Cold Spring is a house near Shepherdstown, West Virginia, childhood home to two United States Representatives. The house was built by Edward Lucas III and his son, Robert in 1793.
Roy Lucas is a former American football coach. He served as the head football at the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery, West Virginia from 1976 until 1982, compiling a record of 26–35–4. He is the younger brother of former National Basketball Association player Jerry Lucas. Lucas died on August 26, 2019 in Edgewood, Kentucky.
The 2016 West Virginia gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2016, to elect the Governor of West Virginia, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The primaries were held on May 10.
Wish You Well is a 2013 theatrical family film directed by Darnell Martin, written by David Baldacci from his 2001 novel of the same name, and starring Mackenzie Foy, Josh Lucas and Ellen Burstyn. The movie is set in rural Virginia during the 1940s and follows Lou and her younger brother Oz who are forced to move to their grandmother's farm following a tragic accident. While living on the farm Lou dreams of following her fathers' footsteps as a writer while her grandmother Louisa Mae tries to stop a coal and gas company from taking her family farm. The supporting cast features Ned Bellamy and Laura Fraser, the cinematographer was Frank Prinzi, and the music was by Paul Cantelon. The film was shot in Giles County, Virginia, near the southeastern border of West Virginia.
Elizabeth Simpson Drewry was an American politician from the state of West Virginia. In 1950, she became the first African American woman to be elected to the West Virginia Legislature. She served eight terms in the House of Delegates.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the three U.S. Representatives from the West Virginia, one from each of the state's three congressional districts. The filing deadline was January 27, 2018. The primary elections were held on May 8, 2018. The elections coincided with the other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
The 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament was the 60th edition of the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, a postseason tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I men's college soccer. The first four rounds of the competition were held at the home ground of the higher seed, while the College Cup were held at Harder Stadium on the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara. The championship match was held on December 10, 2018 with the Maryland Terrapins defeating the Akron Zips 1–0 to claim their fourth title in program history.
The 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament was the 61st edition of the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, a postseason tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I men's college soccer. The first four rounds of the competition were held at the home ground of the higher seed, while the College Cup were held at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina. The championship match took place December 15, 2019.
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