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Harrison County was organized in 1784, with territory partitioned from Monongalia County. It was named for Benjamin Harrison V , [ 10 ] who had recently retired as the Governor of Virginia. (He was the father of William Henry Harrison , 9th President of the United States and great-grandfather of Benjamin Harrison , 23rd president.)
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.
People who have served as sheriffs in the U.S. state of West Virginia Pages in category "West Virginia sheriffs" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
West Virginia is the 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the 12th-least populous state, with a population of 1,769,979 residents. [5] The capital and most populous city is Charleston with a population of 49,055. West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key border state during the American Civil War.
People from Harrison County, West Virginia (6 C, 18 P) S. Salem University (2 C, 2 P) T. Tourist attractions in Harrison County, West Virginia (5 C, 4 P)
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
Of the eight children born to this family, four sons eventually served in the Virginia State Legislators of Virginia and West Virginia. Waldo Goff was a member of the Virginia State Senate from 1833 to 1837, and thereafter held numerous local minor offices including that of sheriff of Harrison County in 1851.
Unincorporated communities in Harrison County, West Virginia (33 P) Pages in category "Populated places in Harrison County, West Virginia" This category contains only the following page.