United States Representatives from West Virginia 2

Image currently unavailable	DAVIS, Thomas Beall (1828-1911)
	Bio: (brother of Henry Gassaway Davis), a Representative from West Virginia; born in Baltimore, Md., April 25, 1828; moved to Howard County, Md., where he attended the common schools; moved to Piedmont, Va. (now West Virginia), in 1854 and entered the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.; a few years later he moved to Keyser and engaged in the mercantile business, lumbering, banking, mining, and finally the building of railroads; member of the Democratic State executive committee 1876-1907; member of the State house of delegates 1898-1900; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alston G. Dayton and served from June 6, 1905, to March 3, 1907; was not a candidate for reelection in 1906; resumed agricultural pursuits and coal mining; died in Keyser, Mineral County, W.Va., November 26, 1911; interment in Maplewood Cemetery, Elkins, W.Va.
Position Party Session of Congress Years Representative Democrat 59 1905-1906

Image currently unavailable	DAVIS, John James (1835-1916)
	Bio: (father of John William Davis), a Representative from West Virginia; born in Clarksburg, Va. (now West Virginia), May 5, 1835; attended the Northwestern Virginia Academy at Clarksburg, and was graduated from the Lexington Law School (now the law department of Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., in 1856; was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Clarksburg, Va.; member of the Virginia house of delegates in 1861; member of the first convention looking toward the formation of a new State loyal to the Union, from counties of western Virginia, held April 22, 1861; delegate from Harrison County to the Wheeling convention June 11, 1861; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1868, 1876 and 1892; member of the West Virginia house of delegates in 1869 and 1870; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress and reelected as an Independent Democrat to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; resumed the practice of law in Clarksburg, W.Va.; died in Clarksburg, Harrison County, W.Va., March 19, 1916; interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Position Party Session of Congress Years Representative Democrat 43 1873-1874 Representative Democrat 42 1871-1872

Image currently unavailable	DAVIS, John William (1873-1955)
	Bio: (son of John James Davis), a Representative from West Virginia; born in Clarksburg, Harrison County, W.Va., April 13, 1873; attended various private schools; was graduated from the literary department of Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., in 1892; taught school; reentered the university and was graduated from its law department in 1895; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Clarksburg, W.Va.; professor of law at Washington and Lee University in 1896 and 1897; resumed the practice of law in Clarksburg, W.Va., in 1897; member of the State house of delegates in 1899; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1904; president of the West Virginia Bar Association in 1906; appointed a member of the West Virginia Commission on Uniform State Laws in 1909; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1911, to August 29, 1913, when he resigned; one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1912 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Robert W. Archbald, judge of the United States Commerce Court; Solicitor General of the United States 1913-1918; appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James and served from November 21, 1918, to March 31, 1921; member of the American delegation for conference with Germany on the treatment and exchange of prisoners of war, held in Berne, Switzerland, in September 1918; honorary bencher of the Middle Temple, London, England; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 1924; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1932; was a resident of Nassau County, N.Y., and practiced law in New York City until his death; died in Charleston, S.C., March 24, 1955; interment in Locust Valley Cemetery, Glen Cove, Long Island, N.Y.
Position Party Session of Congress Years Representative Democrat 63 1913-1914 Representative Democrat 62 1911-1912

	DAYTON, Alston Gordon (1857-1920)
	Bio: a Representative from West Virginia; born in Philippi, Va. (now West Virginia), October 18, 1857; attended the public schools, and was graduated from the University of West Virginia at Morgantown in June 1878; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1878 and commenced practice in Philippi; appointed to fill an unexpired term as prosecuting attorney of Upshur County, W.Va., in 1879; prosecuting attorney for Barbour County 1882-1886; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1895, until his resignation March 16, 1905, to accept a judicial position; appointed United States district judge for the northern district of West Virginia on March 5, 1905, and served until his death in Battle Creek, Mich., on July 30, 1920; interment in Fraternity Cemetery, Philippi, Barbour County, W.Va.
Position Party Session of Congress Years Representative Republican 59 1905-1906 Representative Republican 58 1903-1904 Representative Republican 57 1901-1902 Representative Republican 56 1899-1900 Representative Republican 55 1897-1898 Representative Republican 54 1895-1896

Image currently unavailable	DORR, Charles Phillips (1852-1914)
	Bio: a Representative from West Virginia; born in Miltonsburg, Monroe County, Ohio, August 12, 1852; moved with his parents to Woodsfield, Ohio, in 1866; attended the common schools; taught school in Ohio and West Virginia; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in West Virginia the same year; member of the town council of Webster Springs, W.Va.; elected a member of the State house of delegates in 1884 and 1888; sergeant at arms of that body in 1887; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); was not a candidate for renomination in 1898; resumed the practice of law at Webster Springs, W.Va.; died on his estate at Clover Lick, near Marlinton, Pocahontas County, W.Va., October 8, 1914; interment in Clover Lick Cemetery.
Position Party Session of Congress Years Representative Republican 55 1897-1898

	DOVENER, Blackburn Barrett (1842-1914)
	Bio: a Representative from West Virginia; born in Tays Valley, Cabell County, Va. (now West Virginia), April 20, 1842; attended the common schools; taught school 1858-1861; at the age of nineteen raised a company and served as captain of Company A, Fifteenth Regiment, West Virginia Volunteer Infantry; became captain of an Ohio River steamboat in 1867; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1873 and commenced practice in Wheeling, W.Va.; member of the State house of delegates in 1883 and 1884; unsuccessful Republican candidate for election to the Fifty-second Congress; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for renomination; resumed the practice of law in Wheeling; lived in retirement at Glen Echo, Md., until his death on May 9, 1914; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.
Position Party Session of Congress Years Representative Republican 59 1905-1906 Representative Republican 58 1903-1904 Representative Republican 57 1901-1902 Representative Republican 56 1899-1900 Representative Republican 55 1897-1898 Representative Republican 54 1895-1896

Image currently unavailable	DUVAL, Isaac Harding (1824-1902)
	Bio: a Representative from West Virginia; born in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Va. (now West Virginia), September 1, 1824; attended the common schools; as a youth he went to Fort Smith, Ark., and joined an elder brother, who was conducting a trading post; became a scout on the Western Plains; crossed the Plains in 1849 for the gold fields of California; was a member of the Lopez expedition to Cuba in an attempt to aid the Cubans in gaining national independence; returned to Virginia in 1853 and engaged in mercantile pursuits at Wellsburg; during the Civil War was commissioned major of the First Regiment, West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, June 1, 1861; successively promoted to colonel of the Ninth Regiment, brigadier general, and brevet major general; member of the State senate 1867-1869; adjutant general of West Virginia, 1867-1869; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); declined to be candidate for renomination in 1870; United States assessor of internal revenue in 1871 and 1872; collector of internal revenue for the first district of West Virginia 1872-1884; member of the State house of delegates 1887-1889; died in Wellsburg, W.Va., July 10, 1902; interment in Brooke Cemetery.
Position Party Session of Congress Years Representative Republican 41 1869-1870

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Image currently unavailable	ECHOLS, Leonard Sidney (1871-1946)
	Bio: a Representative from West Virginia; born in Madison, Boone County, W.Va., October 30, 1871; attended the public schools; was graduated from the commercial department of the University of Kentucky at Lexington in 1894, from the Concord State Normal School, Athens, W.Va., in 1898, and from the law department of the Southern Normal University, Huntingdon, Tenn., in 1900; was admitted to the bar in 1900 and commenced practice in Point Pleasant, W.Va., in 1903; prosecuting attorney of Mason County 1904-1909; assistant State tax commissioner for West Virginia 1909-1919; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Navy (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress and for election in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; member of the committee on appeals and review of the United States Treasury Department from May 1, 1923, to September 15, 1924; delegate to the Republican State convention in 1924; postmaster at Charleston, W.Va., 1925-1928; resumed the practice of law; served as referee in bankruptcy and as special master in the United States District Court, Charleston, W.Va.; died in Charleston, W.Va., May 9, 1946; interment in Sunset Memorial Park, South Charleston, W.Va.
Position Party Session of Congress Years Representative Republican 67 1921-1922 Representative Republican 66 1919-1920

	EDMISTON, Andrew (1892-1966)
	Bio: a Representative from West Virginia; born in Weston, Lewis County, W.Va., November 13, 1892; attended the Friends’ Select School, Washington, D.C., Kentucky Military Institute at Lyndon, and the University of West Virginia at Morgantown; engaged in agricultural pursuits 1915-1917 and in the manufacture of glass at Weston, W.Va., since 1925; served overseas as a second lieutenant with the Thirty-ninth Infantry, Fourth Division, 1917-1919; awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Distinguished Service Medal of West Virginia; editor of the Weston (W.Va.) Democrat 1920-1935; mayor of Weston, W.Va., 1924-1926; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1928 and 1952; State chairman of the Democratic executive committee 1928-1932; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lynn S. Horner; reelected to the Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from November 28, 1933, to January 3, 1943; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; resumed his former business pursuits; appointed State director of War Manpower for West Virginia on June 28, 1943, and served until his resignation on June 30, 1945, to return to private business; died in Weston, W.Va., August 28, 1966; interment in Machpelah Cemetery.
Position Party Session of Congress Years Representative Democrat 77 1941-1942 Representative Democrat 76 1939-1940 Representative Democrat 75 1937-1938 Representative Democrat 74 1935-1936 Representative Democrat 73 1933-1934

Image currently unavailable	ELLIS, Hubert Summers (1887-1959)
	Bio: a Representative from West Virginia; born in Hurricane, Putnam County, W.Va., July 6, 1887; attended the public schools and Marshall College, Huntington, W.Va.; engaged in banking and as a salesman 1910-1917 and in the general insurance business in 1920; served overseas as a first lieutenant in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Division, 1917-1919; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress, and for election in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress; appointed West Virginia director for the Federal Housing Administration February 2, 1954, and resigned February 10, 1958; died in Huntington, W.Va., December 3, 1959; interment in Woodmere Cemetery.
Position Party Session of Congress Years Representative Republican 80 1947-1948 Representative Republican 79 1945-1946 Representative Republican 78 1943-1944

Image currently unavailable	ENGLAND, Edward Theodore (1869-1934)
	Bio: a Representative from West Virginia; born in Gay, Jackson County, W.Va., September 29, 1869; attended the public schools; was graduated from the Concord Normal School, Athens, W.Va., in 1892; taught school for several years; was graduated from the law department of Southern Normal University, Huntingdon, Tenn., in 1898; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Oceana, W.Va.; moved to Logan, W.Va., in 1901 and continued the practice of law; elected mayor of Logan in 1903; member of the State senate 1908-1916; elected president of the State senate in 1915 and by virtue of this office was Lieutenant Governor in 1915 and 1916; presided over the first meeting of all Lieutenant Governors of the United States at Rhea Springs, Tenn., in 1915; elected attorney general of the State and served from 1917 to 1925; represented the State of West Virginia before the Supreme Court of the United States in the Virginia debt controversy; elected president of the Attorney Generals’ Association of the United States at Minneapolis, Minn., in 1923; was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor in 1924; elected as a Republican to the Seventieth Congress (March 4, 1927-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress; resumed the practice of law in Charleston, W.Va.; died in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 9, 1934; interment in Sunset Memorial Park, Charleston, W.Va.
Position Party Session of Congress Years Representative Republican 70 1927-1928

	FAULKNER, Charles James (1806-1884)
	Bio: (father of Charles James Faulkner [1847-1929]), a Representative from Virginia and from West Virginia; born in Martinsburg, Va. (now West Virginia), July 6, 1806; was graduated from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1822; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1829 and practiced; member of the Virginia house of delegates 1829-1834, 1848, and 1849; commissioner of Virginia on the disputed boundaries between that State and Maryland; member of the State senate from 1838 to 1842, when he resigned; member of the State constitutional convention in 1850; elected from Virginia as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress and as a Democrat to the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1859); chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Thirty-fifth Congress); appointed United States Minister to France by President Buchanan in 1859; returned to the United States in August 1861 and was detained as a prisoner of state on charges of negotiating arms sales for the Confederacy while in Paris; released in December 1861 and negotiated his own exchange for Alfred Ely, a Congressman from New York who had been taken prisoner by the Confederates at Bull Run; during the Civil War entered the Confederate Army and was assistant adjutant general on the staff of Gen. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson; engaged in railroad enterprises; member of the State constitutional convention of West Virginia in 1872; elected as a Democrat from West Virginia to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); resumed the practice of law; died on the family estate, “Boydville,” near Martinsburg, W.Va., November 1, 1884; interment in the family lot on the estate.
Position Party Session of Congress Years Representative Democrat 44 1875-1876

Image currently unavailable	FREER, Romeo Hoyt (1846-1913)
	Bio: a Representative from West Virginia; born in Bazetta, Trumbull County, Ohio, November 9, 1846; attended the common schools of Ashtabula County, Ohio, where his parents had moved when he was three years old; during the Civil War served in the Union Army as a private; settled in Charleston, W.Va., in March 1866; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1868 and practiced; assistant prosecuting attorney of Kanawha County 1868-1871; prosecuting attorney of the same county 1871-1873; appointed commercial agent to San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua, January 15, 1873, and served until January 1877; moved to Harrisville, Ritchie County, W.Va., in 1882; member of the State house of delegates in 1891; prosecuting attorney of Ritchie County 1892-1897; judge of the fourth circuit of West Virginia 1896-1899; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; attorney general of West Virginia 1901-1905; appointed postmaster of Harrisville, W.Va., on October 4, 1907, and served until his death, May 9, 1913; interment in Harrisville Cemetery.
Position Party Session of Congress Years Representative Republican 56 1899-1900

	GAINES, Joseph Holt (1864-1951)
	Bio: a Representative from West Virginia; born in Washington, D.C., September 3, 1864; moved with his parents to Fayette County, W.Va., in 1867; attended the University of West Virginia at Morgantown and was graduated from Princeton College in 1886; was admitted to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice in Fayetteville, W.Va.; appointed United States district attorney for West Virginia by President McKinley in 1897; resigned in 1901; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1911); chairman, Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives (Fifty-eighth through Sixty-first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910; resumed the practice of law in Charleston, W.Va.; died in Montgomery, W.Va., April 12, 1951; interment in Spring Hill Cemetery, Charleston, W.Va.
Position Party Session of Congress Years Representative Republican 61 1909-1910 Representative Republican 60 1907-1908 Representative Republican 59 1905-1906 Representative Republican 58 1903-1904 Representative Republican 57 1901-1902

Image currently unavailable	GIBSON, Eustace (1842-1900)
	Bio: a Representative from West Virginia; born in Culpeper County, Va., October 4, 1842; attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in 1861; enlisted in the Confederate Army in June 1861 as first lieutenant; promoted to captain in 1863 and retired on account of wounds; member of the constitutional convention of Virginia in 1867 and 1868; settled in Huntington, W.Va., in 1871; member of the State house of delegates in 1877 and 1878, and served as speaker in 1877; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Forty-ninth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1886 and for nomination in 1888; again resumed the practice of law; died in Clifton Forge, Va., on December 10, 1900; interment in Spring Hill Cemetery, Huntington, W.Va.
Position Party Session of Congress Years Representative Democrat 49 1885-1886 Representative Democrat 48 1883-1884

	GOFF, Nathan (1843-1920)
	Bio: (father of Guy Despard Goff and grandfather of Louise Goff Reece), a Representative and a Senator from West Virginia; born in Clarksburg, Harrison County, Va. (now West Virginia), February 9, 1843; attended the Northwestern Academy, Clarksburg, W.Va., and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; studied law and graduated from the University of the City of New York; during the Civil War enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 in the Third Regiment of Virginia Volunteer Infantry, later became a major in the Virginia Volunteer Cavalry; admitted to the bar in 1865 and practiced law; member, State house of delegates 1867-1868; United States attorney for West Virginia 1868-1881; appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Rutherford Hayes 1881; reappointed United States attorney for West Virginia 1881-1882; unsuccessful Republican candidate for election to Congress in 1870 and 1874; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of West Virginia in 1876 and 1888; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1889); was not a candidate for renomination; United States circuit judge for the fourth judicial circuit 1892-1913; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate for the term commencing March 4, 1913, but did not immediately take his seat, preferring to remain on the bench, and served from April 1, 1913, to March 3, 1919; not a candidate for reelection in 1918; chairman, Committee on Conservation of Natural Resources (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Industrial Expositions (Sixty-fifth Congress); died in Clarksburg, W.Va., April 24, 1920; interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Position Party Session of Congress Years Senator Republican 65 1917-1918 Senator Republican 64 1915-1916 Senator Republican 63 1913-1914 Representative Republican 50 1887-1888 Representative Republican 49 1885-1886 Representative Republican 48 1883-1884

Image currently unavailable	GOODYKOONTZ, Wells (1872-1944)
	Bio: a Representative from West Virginia; born near Newbern, Pulaski County, Va., June 3, 1872; educated under private tutors and attended Oxford Academy at Floyd, Va., and the law department of Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice at Williamson, W.Va., in 1894; also engaged in banking; member of the State house of delegates in 1911 and 1912; member of the State senate 1914-1918 and served as president of the senate and Lieutenant Governor ex officio of the State from 1917 to December 1, 1918; president of the West Virginia Bar Association in 1917 and 1918; chairman of the central legal advisory board for West Virginia during the First World War; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; resumed the practice of law and banking interests in Williamson, W.Va.; also engaged in literary work; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 2, 1944; interment in Fairview Cemetery, Williamson, W.Va.
Position Party Session of Congress Years Representative Republican 67 1921-1922 Representative Republican 66 1919-1920