West Virginia

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Senators

John Rockefeller Democrat 28 years in office

Joe Manchin Democrat 3 years in office

Representatives

1st District David McKinley MyOC Group Republican 2 years in office

2nd District Shelley Capito MyOC Group Republican 12 years in office

3rd District Nick Rahall MyOC Group Democrat 36 years in office

    West Virginia (/ˌwɛstvɚˈdʒɪnjə/) is a state in the Appalachian, Upland South, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia on the southeast, Kentucky on the southwest, Ohio on the northwest, and Pennsylvania and Maryland on the northeast. The capital and largest city is Charleston.     Historically the area now occupying West Virginia had a separate identity from the early days of pioneering settlement. The early British American settlers called the area Vandalia. After the American Revolution the settlers of the area sought the status of an individual state of the union under the name Westsylvania, but their attempts were blocked by Virginia which claimed most of the area, and Pennsylvania which claimed a small part of the area.     After the... (More from Freebase)

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