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Telephone and Telegraph Politicians in West Virginia

N. T. Downs (b. 1874) — of Mill Creek, Randolph County, W.Va. Born in Flintstone, Allegany County, Md., October 26, 1874. Democrat. Railway freight and ticket agent; telegraph operator; member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Randolph County, 1941-46. Protestant. Member, Freemasons; Odd Fellows; Royal Arcanum; Order of Railroad Telegraphers. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of William H. Downs and Elizabeth (Chisholm) Downs; married, June 14, 1899, to Philomena Patterson. Francis Pierpoint Moats (b. 1869) — also known as Francis P. Moats — of Parkersburg, Wood County, W.Va. Born near Harrisville, Ritchie County, W.Va., July 2, 1869. Lawyer; indepedent telephone business; member of West Virginia state house of delegates, 1903-04; Progressive candidate for West Virginia state senate 3rd District, 1914. Member, American Bar Association. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Benjamin Moats and Mary Isabelle (Pierpoint) Moats; married, October 4, 1893, to Fanny Shrewsbury Neal.   Image source: West Virginia and Its People (1913) Harry E. Moats (b. 1913) — of Harrisville, Ritchie County, W.Va. Born in Harrisville, Ritchie County, W.Va., March 16, 1913. Republican. Lawyer; vice-president and director, Ritchie Telephone Company; treasurer and director, West Virginia Insurance Company; Ritchie County Prosecuting Attorney, 1941-49; member of West Virginia state senate 3rd District, 1949-60; member of West Virginia state house of delegates, 1970-76 (6th District 1970-74, 7th District 1975-76); appointed 1970. Methodist. Member, Freemasons; Shriners; Lions; Moose; Delta Sigma Rho; American Bar Association; American Judicature Society. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Carlie S. Moats and Viola (McDougal) Moats; married, November 13, 1948, to Irene Jenney Swiger.   Image source: West Virginia Blue Book 1951 George Selden Wallace (b. 1871) — also known as George S. Wallace — of Huntington, Cabell County, W.Va. Born near Greenwood, Albemarle County, Va., September 6, 1871. Democrat. Telegraph operator; manager, telegraph office; train dispatcher for Chesapeake & Ohio Railway; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer; Cabell County Prosecuting Attorney, 1905-08; member of West Virginia Democratic State Executive Committee, 1910; delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, 1912; member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Cabell County, 1936; appointed 1936; president, Union Bank & Trust Co., Huntington. Episcopalian. Member, American Bar Association; Freemasons; Elks; Rotary; Society of the Cincinnati; Phi Sigma Kappa. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Charles Irving Wallace and Maria Logan (Sclater) Wallace; married, October 4, 1905, to Frances Bodine Gibson.   Image source: Huntington Through Seventy-Five Years (1947)

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