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Steel and Metal Industry Politicians in West Virginia

Joseph Gardner Bradley (b. 1881) — also known as J. G. Bradley — of Dundon, Clay County, W.Va. Born in Newark, Essex County, N.J., September 12, 1881. Republican. Coal mining magnate; organizer of Elk River Coal and Lumber Co.; organizer of the Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad; director, Central Iron and Steel Co.; created the town of Widen, W.Va.; delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, 1916, 1928; chair of Clay County Republican Party, 1917. Episcopalian. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of William Hornblower Bradley and Eliza McCormack (Cameron) Bradley; married to Mabel Bayard Warren (granddaughter of Thomas Francis Bayard Sr.); grandson of Simon Cameron and Joseph Philo Bradley.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Hornblower family of Newark, New Jersey (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Charles E. Donley (b. 1921) — also known as Chuck Donley — of Wellsburg, Brooke County, W.Va. Born in Brooke County, W.Va., May 12, 1921. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; steelworker; athletic coach; member of West Virginia state house of delegates; elected 1970, 1972, 1974; elected unopposed 1976. Christian. Member, Kappa Alpha Order; Elks; Veterans of Foreign Wars; American Legion. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of John B. Donley and Mary (Jones) Donley; married, July 4, 1946, to Mattie Lang.   Karl Moore Jones (b. 1908) — also known as Karl M. Jones — of Marshall County, W.Va. Born in Glen Roy, Jackson County, Ohio, May 13, 1908. Democrat. Steelworker; member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Marshall County, 1949-50; defeated, 1950, 1952. Lutheran. Member, Eagles; United Steelworkers of America. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Henry Charles Jones and Minnie Camellia (Moore) Jones.   Louis Leonard (1880-1969) — of Wheeling, Ohio County, W.Va.; Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa. Born in Belgium, April 22, 1880. Democrat. Steelworker; International Secretary-Treasurer, Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America, 1919-42; member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1941-46, 1949-66 (Allegheny County 6th District 1941-46, 1949-54, Allegheny County 10th District 1955-64, Allegheny County 6th District 1965-66). Belgian ancestry. Member, Moose; Elks; Eagles. Died in December, 1969 (age 89 years, 0 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Julius Leonard and Catherine (Legot) Leonard; married to Margaret B. McClellan.   Thomas Elliott Millsop (1898-1967) — also known as Thomas E. Millsop — of Weirton, Hancock County, W.Va. Born in Sharon, Mercer County, Pa., December 4, 1898. Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; steel executive; mayor of Weirton, W.Va., 1947-55; candidate for Presidential Elector for West Virginia; delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, 1952. Scottish ancestry. Member, American Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Elks; Freemasons; Scottish Rite Masons; Shriners; Jesters; Lions; Moose; Eagles; Rotary; Sigma Phi Epsilon. Died, following a heart attack, in Weirton, Hancock County, W.Va., September 12, 1967 (age 68 years, 282 days). Interment at Chestnut Ridge Cemetery, Florence, Pa.   Relatives: Son of George Roy Millsop and Mary Margaret (McCormick) Millsop; married, December 1, 1918, to Lauretta Brunswick; married 1949 to Eleanor (Marwitz) Ent; married, January 17, 1955, to Frances (Lowe) Weir.   The Weirton Millsop Community Center (opened 1952 as Weirton Community Center; renamed 1965), in Weirton, West Virginia, is named for him.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Kenneth Carolyn Ranson (b. 1916) — also known as Kenneth C. Ranson — of Liberty, Putnam County, W.Va. Born in Liberty, Putnam County, W.Va., March 25, 1916. Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; superintendent of transportation, West Virginia Steel Corporation; member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Putnam County; elected 1966. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of William Wirt Ranson and Ora Maud (Hunt) Ranson; married, May 10, 1936, to Ethel Dorcus King.   John Ulrich (1871-1943) — also known as Honus Ulrich — of Wheeling, Ohio County, W.Va. Born in Sharon, Mercer County, Pa., June 14, 1871. Republican. Steelworker; member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Ohio County, 1927-32; defeated, 1934; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, 1932. Member, United Steelworkers of America. Died in Wheeling, Ohio County, W.Va., May 20, 1943 (age 71 years, 340 days). Interment at Greenwood Cemetery, Wheeling, W.Va.   Relatives: Grandfather of Samuel J. Kasley.

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