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James Conley Justice II [2] (born April 27, 1951) is an American politician and coal baron [3] [4] serving as the junior United States senator from West Virginia since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 36th governor of West Virginia from 2017 to 2025.
Democratic Wheeling mayor Glenn Elliott and Republican Governor Jim Justice were seeking their first term in office. Justice will succeed independent incumbent Joe Manchin, who did not seek a third full term. [1] This was the first time since the 1956 special election that a Republican won West Virginia's Class I Senate Seat.
The upper chamber flip began with West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice winning the seat held by outgoing Democrat-turned-independent Joe Manchin, who announced in November 2023 he would not ...
Republican Jim Justice won the West Virginia Senate race Tuesday, putting his party up one seat for control of the upper chamber, according to figures from multiple national news organizations ...
West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice won the state’s open Senate seat Tuesday, NBC News projects, moving Republicans one step closer to flipping the balance of power in the chamber.
Incumbent Republican Jim Justice was term-limited and was unable to seek re-election to a third consecutive term in office; he instead ran for the U.S. Senate. [2] First elected in 2016 as a Democrat by 6.8 percentage points, Justice switched parties in August 2017 and won re-election in 2020 as a Republican by
Justice will be the first Republican to hold the seat since 1959, when the late Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd began his 51-year career in the chamber. (Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by ...
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice will win the state’s Republican US Senate primary, CNN projects, positioning the two-term governor as the clear favorite to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Joe ...