The Political Graveyard: West Virginia: Secretaries of State

West Virginia: Secretaries of State

West Virginia Secretaries of State, 1863-2004 (May be incomplete!)
Jacob Edgar Boyers 1863-65 Granville D. Hall 1865-67 John S. Witcher 1867-69 James M. Pipes 1869-71 John M. Phelps 1871-73 Charles Hedrick 1873-77 Sobieski Brady 1877-81 Randolph Stalnaker 1881-85 Henry S. Walker 1885-90 William A. Ohley 1890-93 William E. Chilton 1893-97 William M. O. Dawson 1897-1905 Charles Wesley Swisher 1905-09 Stuart F. Reed 1909-17 Houston G. Young 1917-25 George W. Sharp 1925-33 William S. O'Brien 1933-48 Joe F. Burdett 1963 Robert D. Bailey 1965-67 John D. Rockefeller IV 1969-72 A. James Manchin 1976-84 Ken Hechler 1985-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1936 Nov 3: William S. O'Brien (Dem), elected; Phil M. Conley (Rep), defeated.

1940 Nov 5: William S. O'Brien (Dem), elected; Mrs. Chauncey D. Hinerman (Rep), defeated.

1944 Nov 7: William S. O'Brien (Dem), elected; Phil M. Conley (Rep), defeated.

1948 Aug 10: William S. O'Brien, died in office.

1948 Nov 2: D. Pitt O'Brien (Dem), elected; A. Sweeney Fleming (Rep), defeated.

1956 Nov 6: D. Pitt O'Brien (Dem), elected; Holt Byrne (Rep), defeated.

1958 Nov 4: Joe F. Burdett (Dem), elected; Helen Holt (Rep), defeated.

1965 May 17: Robert D. Bailey, appointed.

1966 Nov 8: Robert D. Bailey (Dem), elected; John S. Callebs (Rep), defeated.

1968 Nov 5: John D. Rockefeller IV (Dem), elected; John S. Callebs (Rep), defeated.

1972 Nov 7: Edgar F. Heiskell III (Rep), elected; Thomas A. Winner (Dem), defeated.

1980 Nov 4: A. James Manchin (Dem), elected; Dee Brown (Rep), defeated.

1984 Nov 6: Ken Hechler (Dem), elected; Michele Golden (Rep), defeated.

1988: Ken Hechler (Dem), elected.

1992: Ken Hechler (Dem), elected.

1996: Ken Hechler (Dem), elected.

2004 Nov 2: Betty Ireland (Rep), elected; Ken Hechler (Dem), defeated.

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