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This governor increased corporate taxes and wrote History of Kanawha County and After the Moonshiners.
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Shelley Moore Capito was the first woman from West Virginia elected to this government body.
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Who was the only member of Congress to march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Selma, Alabama?
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Of the state's many noted Jacksons, who is the only one to serve as governor?
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When Herman Guy Kump became president, which one of the following was NOT occurring?
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Who was governor during the Battle of Blair Mountain?
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This governor first came to West Virginia in the 1960s as a social worker fighting poverty.
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This politician served as West Virginia governor from 1977 to 1985 and then as a U.S. senator from 1977 to 2015.
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Which member of Congress introduced legislation in 1980 that deregulated the railroad industry?
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What future U.S. senator did William E. Stevenson defeat to become governor in 1868?
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