1. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
44 th
With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas,
President Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4,
1961. He was raised with help from his grandfather,
who served in Patton's army, and his grandmother,
who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to
middle management at a bank.
2. Maya Soetoro-Ng is
Barack Obama’s half
sister
There is not a Black America and a White America and
Latino America and Asian America; there's the United
States of America .
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4. Barack Hussein Obama Ronald Wilson Reagan
444th President of the United States 40th President of the United States
(January 20, 2008 to present) (January 20, 1981 to January 20, 1989
James Earl Carter, Jr.
George Walker Bush
39th President of the United States
43rd President of the United States (January 20, 1977 to January 20, 1981)
(January 20, 2001 to 2008)
Gerald Rudolph Ford
William Jefferson Clinton 38th President of the United States
(August 9, 1974 to January 20, 1977)
42nd President of the United States
(January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001
Richard Milhous Nixon
37th President of the United States
(January 20, 1969 to August 9, 1974)
George Herbert Walker Bush
Nickname: "Tricky Dick
41st President of the United States
(January 20, 1989 to January 20, 1993
5. Senator ROBERT BYRD
In the history of the Republic, Byrd has served longer than any Member
of Congress. In June 2006, Byrd became the longest serving Senator in
the history of the Republic and, in November 2006, he was elected to an
unprecedented ninth consecutive term in the Senate. During his tenure,
his colleagues have elected him to more leadership positions than any
other Senator in history. Throughout his career, Byrd has cast nearly
17,800 roll call votes -- an amazing 98.7 percent attendance record in his
nearly five decades of service in the Senate
6. Growing up in Raleigh County, Byrd not only learned the values
that have guided him in his life, but that is where he also met his
life’s love, Erma Ora James. They both attended Mark Twain High
School and married shortly after graduation in 1937. For nearly 69
years, the Byrds were inseparable, traveling the hills and hollows of
West Virginia and crossing the globe together. Mrs. Byrd passed
away in March 2006 after battling a long illness
7. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., speaks during a press conference as Sen. Barack Obama,
D-Ill., left, and Gov. Joe Manchin, right, listen in
8. Byrd is currently President pro tempore of the United States Senate of the
110th United States Congress, a position which puts him third in line to the
presidency behind Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Byrd was born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr. in
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in 1917.
When he was one year old, his mother, Ada
Mae Kirby, died in the 1918 Flu Pandemic. In Byrd with great-grandchildren Caroline Byrd
accordance with his mother's wishes, his Fatemi (left) and Kathryn Somes Fatemi
father, Cornelius Calvin Sale,[1] dispersed the
family children among relatives. Sale Jr. was
given to the custody of an aunt and an uncle,
Vlurma and Titus Byrd, who renamed him
Robert Byrd and raised him in the coal-mining
region of southern West Virginia
10. Senator Jay Rockefeller has proudly served the
people of West Virginia for over 40 years. In
1964, Rockefeller first came to West Virginia as a
27-year-old VISTA volunteer serving in the small
mining community of Emmons. West Virginia
has been his home ever since. Working with the
residents of Emmons to improve the community
through projects such as building a community
center and library, constructing a park, and
lobbying the county school board to put a bus
stop in Emmons, changed Jay Rockefeller’s life
forever
12. Alan B. Mollohan was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, on May 14, 1943, to Robert H. and Helen
Holt Mollohan. A graduate of Greenbrier Military School, the College of William and Mary, and
West Virginia University's College of Law, he began his legal career in 1970 with a Fairmont firm.
In 1976 he married Glenville native Barbara Whiting, who was working as a speech therapist in
the Ohio County schools system. They are the parents of four sons and one daughter
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15. SHELLEY
MOORE
CAPITO
Congresswoman Capito divides her time between visiting the 18 counties in her district and
serving on two House Committees: the Committee on Financial Services and the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure. She is also a member of the Congressional Caucus for
Women's Issues and a member of the Congressional Steel Caucus and Sportsman’s Caucus.
Residing in Charleston, West Virginia, Capito is as committed to these issues as she is to being
an energetic mother and a fan of sports of all kinds. Capito graduated from Duke with a B.S. in
Zoology, and also holds a M.Ed. from the University of Virginia. She is married to Charles L.
Capito, Jr. and they have three children: sons Charles (and his wife Laura) and Moore, and one
daughter, Shelley
17. Capito — then Shelly Moore —
reigned over the 1972 Shenandoah
Apple Blossom Festival as
Queen Shenandoah XXXXV.
“It was a heck of a lot of fun,” she
recalled.
Her father, former West Virginia
Gov. Arch Moore Jr., acted as
Minister of the Crown. Billy Graham
was the grand marshal, Howard
Cosell and Jim Plunkett were co-
sports marshals, and Barbara
Mandrell
was one of the celebrities.
18. A 33rd degree Mason, Rahall is a life member of the National Rifle Association, Elks, Moose, and the
NAACP, and was made an honorary member of the United Mine Workers of America in 2003. Before
his election to the Congress, Rahall served as a staff assistant to U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, and as
a businessman. Congressman Rahall has three children: Rebecca, Nick Joe, III and Suzanne Nicole.
Congressman Rahall is married to the former Melinda Ross of Ashland, Kentucky
23. July 14, 2005 - West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, aboard his 1998 Harley-Davidson Road King Classic, pulls out
from the State Capitol's North Plaza to head to Snowshoe Mountain Resort Thursday afternoon, July 14. The
Governor led a group of a dozen Harley-owners on a ride from Charleston to Snowshoe for the start of the 2005
West Virginia Harley Owner's Group (H.O.G.) State Rally. More than 2,200 motorcyclists from 36 states are
expected to attend the three-day event in Pocahontas County
