
West Virginia Statehood
Lectures in History
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West Virginia Civil War - Is This Legal?
There are only 88 delegates at the second wheeling convention. They hold their meetings in the customs house and they're going to choose a number of key people. The chairman of the commission is actually going to be the first governor of West Virginia, Arthur Borman of Parkersburg. You might guess who might be the person they're thinking of to be the governor of Virginia? Maybe him, but we don't want to give anything away to you.
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