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Today in WV History
06 Nov

Cecil Underwood became West Virginia's youngest governor, and the first Republican governor since 1932

Thirty-four-year-old William Casey Marland (March 26, 1918 - November 26, 1965) was elected governor of West Virginia in 1952, at the height of a meteoric career. Only five years earlier he had been a law student at West Virginia University.Born i...

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