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West Virginia Board of Education; West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission; West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education; West Virginia Department of Education and the Arts. West Virginia Division of Culture and History; West Virginia Division of Rehabilitation Services; West Virginia Department of Environmental ...
Alston G. Dayton (1857–1920), U.S. Representative, West Virginia 2nd District, from 1895 to 1905; born in, and practiced law in, Philippi. Actor Ted Cassidy (1932–79), who played Lurch and "Thing" on the 1960s TV show The Addams Family, was raised in Philippi, graduating from Philippi High School circa 1950. [citation needed].
The Commission supervises, regulates, and, where appropriate, investigates the rates, service, operations, affiliated transactions, and other activities of West Virginia public utilities and many common and contract motor carriers of passengers and property within West Virginia. Some of the industries the Commission regulates include:
The National Utility Contractors Association (NUCA) is a trade association representing the underground utility industry in the United States. Founded in 1964, NUCA is the largest trade association for this industry in the country. [ 1 ]
Coal miners from West Virginia – whom locals have lovingly dubbed the “West Virginia Boys” – moved a mountain in just three days to reopen a 2.7-mile stretch of Highway 64 between Bat Cave ...
In West Virginia, the county is the unit of government, although an unsuccessful attempt to introduce the township system was made in West Virginia's first constitution. Each of the state's 55 counties has a county commission , consisting of three commissioners elected for six years but with terms so arranged that one is up for reelection every ...
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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]