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West Virginia's Governors
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1. Arthur Ingram Boreman 1863-1869
2. Daniel Duane Tompkins Farnsworth 1869
3. William Erskine Stevenson 1869-1871
4. John Jeremiah Jacob 1871-1877
5. Henry Mason Mathews 1877-1881
6. Jacob Beeson Jackson 1881-1885
7. Emanuel Willis Wilson 1885-1890
8. Aretas Brooks Fleming 1890-1893
9. William Alexander MacCorkle 1893-1897
10. George Wesley Atkinson 1897-1901
11. Albert Blakeslee White 1901-1905
12. William Mercer Owens Dawson 1905-1909
13. William Ellsworth Glasscock 1909-1913
14. Henry Drury Hatfield 1913-1917
15. John Jacob Cornwell 1917-1921
16. Ephraim Franklin Morgan 1921-1925
17. Howard Mason Gore 1925-1929
18. William Gustavus Conley 1929-1933
19. Herman Guy Kump 1933-1937
20. Homer Adams Holt 1937-1941
21. Matthew Mansfield Neely 1941-1945
22. Clarence Watson Meadows 1945-1949
23. Okey Leonidas Patteson 1949-1953
24. William Casey Marland 1953-1957
25. Cecil Harland Underwood 1957-1961
26. William Wallace Barron 1961-1965
27. Hulett Carlson Smith 1965-1969
28. Arch Alfred Moore, Jr. 1969-1977
29. John Davison Rockefeller IV 1977-1985
30. Arch Alfred Moore, Jr. 1985-1989
31. William Gaston Caperton III 1989-1997
32. Cecil Harland Underwood 1997-2001
33. Robert Ellsworth Wise, Jr. 2001-2005
34. Joseph Manchin III 2005-2010
35. Earl Ray Tomblin 2010-2017
36. Jim Justice 2017-

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