Note: This is just one of
1,164
family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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Hovah Hall Underwood (1919-2004) —
also known as Hovah Hall —
Born in Grantsville, Calhoun
County, W.Va., April
12, 1919.
School
teacher; social
worker; First Lady of West Virginia, 1957-61, 1997-2001.
Female.
Methodist.
Member, Daughters of the
American Revolution.
Died, from complications of a stroke,
in Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va., September
24, 2004 (age 85 years, 165
days). Her body was
donated to the School of Medicine at Marshall University.
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Cecil Harland Underwood (1922-2008) —
also known as Cecil H. Underwood —
of Sistersville, Tyler
County, W.Va.; Huntington, Cabell
County, W.Va.; Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Josephs Mills, Tyler
County, W.Va., November
5, 1922.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; minister;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Tyler County, 1945-56; Governor of
West Virginia, 1957-61, 1997-2001; defeated, 1964, 1976, 2000;
delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, 1960
(Temporary
Chair), 1972,
1984,
2000;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1960; candidate for Presidential
Elector for West Virginia.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Moose; Junior
Order; Kiwanis;
Pi
Kappa Delta; Farm
Bureau.
He was both the youngest (in 1957) and the oldest (in 2001) governor
in West Virginia history.
Died, following a series of strokes,
in Memorial Hospital
of the Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va., November
24, 2008 (age 86 years, 19
days). His body was
donated to the School of Medicine at Marshall University.
Cenotaph at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Josephs Mills, W.Va.
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Cecilia Underwood —
of Huntington, Cabell
County, W.Va.; South Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
West Virginia, 1972.
Female.
Still living as of 2008.
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