The Political Graveyard: West Virginia: Superintendents of Schools

West Virginia: Superintendents of Schools

West Virginia Superintendents of Schools, 1863-1956 (May be incomplete!)
William R. White 1863-69 H. A. G. Ziegler 1869-70 Alvin D. Williams 1870-71 Charles S. Lewis 1871-72 William K. Pendleton 1873 Benjamin W. Byrne 1873-77 William K. Pendleton 1877-81 Bernard L. Butcher 1881-85 Benjamin S. Morgan 1885-93 Virgil A. Lewis 1893-97 James Russell Trotter 1897-1901 Thomas C. Miller 1901-09 Morris P. Shawkey 1909-21 George M. Ford 1921-29 William Cassius Cook 1929-33 W. W. Trent 1933-37

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1920: W. W. Trent (Dem), defeated.

1924: W. W. Trent (Dem), defeated.

1936 Nov 3: W. W. Trent (Dem), elected; R. Worth Shumaker (Rep), defeated.

1940 Nov 5: W. W. Trent (Dem), elected; R. Worth Shumaker (Rep), defeated.

1944 Nov 7: W. W. Trent (Dem), elected; Kenneth W. Shaffer (Rep), defeated.

1948 Nov 2: W. W. Trent (Dem), elected; Kenneth W. Shaffer (Rep), defeated.

1956 Nov 6: R. Virgil Rohrbough (Rep), elected; W. W. Trent (Dem), defeated.

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