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West Virginia's congressional delegations
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These are tables of congressional delegations from West Virginia to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
The current dean of the West Virginia delegation is Senator Shelley Moore Capito, having served in the Senate since 2015 and in Congress since 2001.
From June 1861 to June 1863, during the Civil War and before West Virginia statehood, the United States recognized the Restored Government of Virginia sitting in Wheeling as the "legitimate", pro-Union government of Virginia. Also called the Reorganized Government of Virginia, it controlled a contiguous area roughly the same as present-day West Virginia, along with parts of Northern Virginia and Tidewater. The rest of Virginia was under Confederate military control, with a state government in Richmond, and did not send representatives to Congress. The legislature in Wheeling chose two U.S. Senators for Virginia, John S. Carlile and Waitman T. Willey, who were seated by the Senate. Three U.S. Representatives elected in western districts of Virginia also went to Congress in 1861: Jacob B. Blair, William G. Brown, and Kellian V. Whaley. In 1861, as one of its first acts, the Restored Government began the process of creating the new state of West Virginia, which was achieved in 1863. The Restored Government of Virginia then moved to Alexandria.
U.S. House of Representatives
Main article: List of United States representatives from West Virginia
Current members
List of current members of the delegation, their terms in office, district boundaries, and the district political ratings according to the Cook Partisan Voting Index. The delegation has 2 members, both Republicans.
| District | CPVI | Representative | |||||||
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| (Residence) | Party | Incumbent time in office | District map | 1st | 2nd | ||||
| R+22 | [[File:Carol Miller, Official Portrait, 116th Congress.jpg | 100px]] | |||||||
| Carol Miller | |||||||||
| (Huntington) | Republican | Since January 3, 2019 | [[File:West Virginia's 1st congressional district (since 2023).png | 400px | ]] | ||||
| R+20 | [[File:Moore Riley 119th Congress (cropped).jpg | 100px]] | |||||||
| Riley Moore | |||||||||
| (Harpers Ferry) | Republican | Since January 3, 2025 | [[File:West Virginia's 2nd congressional district (since 2023).png | 400px | ]] |
Delegation timeline (1863 – present)
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| George W. Atkinson (R) | |
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| Thomas B. Davis (D) | |
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| Democratic Party (US)}} | Matthew M. Neely (D) |
| **** (1915–1917) | |
| Republican Party (US)}} | George Meade |
| Bowers (R) | |
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| Republican Party (US)}} | Robert L. |
| Hogg (R) | |
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| Democratic Party (US)}} | Andrew |
| Edminston Jr. (D) | |
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| Democratic Party (US)}} | Elizabeth Kee (D) |
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| John G. Hutchinson (D) | |
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| **** (2025–2027) |
United States Senate
| CPVI (2025): |
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! Class I senator ! Class II senator
|- style="vertical-align: top;" | [[File:Senator Jim Justice Official Portrait with flags.jpg|x150px]] Jim Justice (Junior senator) (Lewisburg) | [[File:Shelley Moore Capito official Senate photo (cropped 2).jpg |x150px]] Shelley Moore Capito (Senior senator) (Charleston)
|- ! Party | |
|- ! Incumbent since | January 14, 2025 | January 3, 2015 |}
| Class I senator | Congress | Class II senator | Class I senator | Congress | Class II senator | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unionist Party (US) | right | top}} | Peter G. Van Winkle (U) | **** (1863–1865) | {{Party cell | Unionist Party (US) | top}} | Waitman T. Willey (U) | ||
| **** (1865–1867) | Republican Party (US) | bottom}} | Waitman T. Willey (R) | |||||||
| Peter G. Van Winkle (R) | **** (1867–1869) | |||||||||
| Republican Party (US) | right}} | Arthur I. Boreman (R) | **** (1869–1871) | |||||||
| **** (1871–1873) | Democratic Party (US)}} | Henry G. Davis (D) | ||||||||
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| Allen T. Caperton (D) | **** (1875–1877) | |||||||||
| Samuel Price (D) | ||||||||||
| Democratic Party (US) | right}} | Frank Hereford (D) | ||||||||
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| Democratic Party (US) | right}} | Johnson N. Camden (D) | **** (1881–1883) | |||||||
| **** (1883–1885) | Democratic Party (US)}} | John E. Kenna (D) | ||||||||
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| Democratic Party (US) | right}} | Charles James Faulkner (D) | **** (1887–1889) | |||||||
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| Democratic Party (US)}} | Johnson N. Camden (D) | |||||||||
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| **** (1895–1897) | Republican Party (US)}} | Stephen B. Elkins (R) | ||||||||
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| Republican Party (US) | right}} | Nathan B. Scott (R) | **** (1899–1901) | |||||||
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| Davis Elkins (R) | ||||||||||
| Democratic Party (US)}} | Clarence W. Watson (D) | |||||||||
| Democratic Party (US) | right}} | William E. Chilton (D) | **** (1911–1913) | |||||||
| **** (1913–1915) | Republican Party (US)}} | Nathan Goff Jr. (R) | ||||||||
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| Republican Party (US) | right}} | Howard Sutherland (R) | **** (1917–1919) | |||||||
| **** (1919–1921) | Republican Party (US)}} | Davis Elkins (R) | ||||||||
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| Democratic Party (US) | right}} | Matthew M. Neely (D) | **** (1923–1925) | |||||||
| **** (1925–1927) | Republican Party (US)}} | Guy D. Goff (R) | ||||||||
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| Republican Party (US) | right}} | Henry D. Hatfield (R) | **** (1929–1931) | |||||||
| **** (1931–1933) | Democratic Party (US)}} | Matthew M. Neely (D) | ||||||||
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| Democratic Party (US) | right}} | Rush Holt Sr. (D) | **** (1935–1937) | |||||||
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| Democratic Party (US) | right}} | Harley M. Kilgore (D) | **** (1941–1943) | |||||||
| Joseph Rosier (D) | ||||||||||
| Hugh Ike Shott (R) | ||||||||||
| **** (1943–1945) | Republican Party (US)}} | Chapman Revercomb (R) | ||||||||
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| **** (1949–1951) | Democratic Party (US)}} | Matthew M. Neely (D) | ||||||||
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| William Laird III (D) | ||||||||||
| Republican Party (US) | right}} | Chapman Revercomb (R) | ||||||||
| **** (1957–1959) | ||||||||||
| John D. Hoblitzell Jr. (R) | ||||||||||
| Democratic Party (US)}} | Jennings Randolph (D) | |||||||||
| Democratic Party (US) | right}} | Robert Byrd (D) | **** (1959–1961) | |||||||
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| **** (1985–1987) | Democratic Party (US)}} | Jay Rockefeller (D) | ||||||||
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| Carte Goodwin (D) | ||||||||||
| Democratic Party (US) | right}} | Joe Manchin (D) | ||||||||
| **** (2011–2013) | ||||||||||
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| **** (2015–2017) | Republican Party (US)}} | Shelley Moore Capito (R) | ||||||||
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| **** (2023–2025) | ||||||||||
| Joe Manchin (I) | ||||||||||
| Republican Party (US) | right}} | Jim Justice (R) | **** (2025–2027) |
Key
References
References
- "The national atlas". nationalatlas.gov.
- [http://www.wvculture.org/history/statehood/carlilewilleysenate.html wvculture.org - Restored Government]
- [http://www.wvculture.org/hiStory/statehoo.html wvculture.org - Statehood] {{webarchive. link. (2007-03-07)
- Virgil Anson Lewis. (1892). "Southern Historical Magazine: Devoted to History, Genealogy, Biography, Archæology and Kindred Subjects". V.A. Lewis..
- (6 March 2025). "2025 Cook PVI: State Map and List".
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