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This governor increased corporate taxes and wrote History of Kanawha County and After the Moonshiners.
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This Hinton native served as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Obama Administration and as the first female president of American University.
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Who did Gaston Caperton defeat to become West Virginia's 31st governor?
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Where was U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd born?
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In 1996, which Democrat supported the Republican candidate for governor after losing in the primary election.
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Which governor essentially destroyed his political career by supporting a severance tax on coal and other natural resources in the 1950s?
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This politician was the Democrat candidate for governor in 1996 and Mountain Party candidate for governor in 2016.
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This governor first came to West Virginia in the 1960s as a social worker fighting poverty.
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Which member of Congress introduced legislation in 1980 that deregulated the railroad industry?
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What U.S. Postmaster General started the nation's first rural free delivery of mail in West Virginia?
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