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Don Chafin (June 26, 1887 – August 9, 1954) was the sheriff of Logan County, West Virginia, and a commander in the Battle of Blair Mountain.As sheriff of Logan County, Chafin was a fierce opponent of unionization and received hundreds of thousands of dollars from coal mine operators in bribes for his violent suppression of the United Mine Workers union.
Logan County has been notorious for over a century for political machines that control virtually all aspects of elected office. Allies of candidate John F. Kennedy once famously asked local political boss Raymond Chafin how much money he wanted so that Kennedy could carry southern West Virginia in the 1960 presidential election, and Chafin replied "thirty five," meaning $3,500.
Logan was the only county in West Virginia to be carried by George McGovern in his lackluster 1972 campaign, and between 1976 and 2000 no Republican reached 40 percent of the county's vote. From 2000 to 2016, the county swung more Republican in each consecutive election, due to the Democratic Party's support for environmentalist policies. [ 17 ]
In Logan County, where 24% of residents live in poverty, this Vance family — who plans to vote for Kamala Harris in November — is rare. Nearly 70% of voters in West Virginia chose Trump in 2020.
Sheriff Don Chafin of Logan County sent troopers to the Little Coal River area, where armed miners captured the troopers, disarmed them and sent them fleeing. [35] On August 7, 1921, the leaders of the United Mine Workers (UMW) District 17, which encompasses much of southern West Virginia, called a rally at the state capitol in Charleston.
The former police chief of a small West Virginia town is facing over a decade in prison after he was found guilty of sex trafficking an underage girl, federal prosecutors said.
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/Mellinger for Sheriff Facebook/West Virginia Regional JailIt was 2019, and a contentious, mudslinging election for Jackson County ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of West Virginia. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 233 law enforcement agencies employing 3,382 sworn police officers, about 186 for each 100,000 residents.