In sixteen states, the fiscal year ending of the cities ( June 30 ) is the same as that of the state: Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Hawaii ).

Colonel Frederick W. Lander, impersonated, will again make his break-neck ride down the steep declivity of Talbott's ( now College ) Hill and thunder across the bridge to join Colonel Benjamin F. Kelley's ( West ) Virginia Infantry, then swarming through the streets in pursuit of the retreating Confederates.

So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.

The Middle-South Region, as defined by the National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials ( NAIRO ), consists of the states of Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee, West Virginia, Delaware, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

In West Virginia the number of white and Negro children attending the same school has increased almost twofold.

West Virginia toll bonds have defaulted in interest for months, and, despite recent improvement in revenues, holders of the bonds are faced with more of the same.

During the first half of October the Blue Ridge and other parts of the Appalachians provide a spectacle stretching from Maryland and West Virginia to Georgia.

Lincoln's mother, Nancy, was the daughter of Lucy Hanks, and was born in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia, then part of Virginia.

* Ada, West Virginia, Mercer County, West Virginia

* Aberdeen, West Virginia

* 1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.

* The Great Wall – Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, New York, West Virginia, South Carolina

An Alford plea ( also called a Kennedy plea in the state of West Virginia, an

* 2010 – Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.

He based his cast of characters on the authentic mountain-dwellers he met while hitchhiking through rural West Virginia and the Cumberland Valley as a teenager.

Alcohol sales are prohibited on Sunday in West Virginia until 1: 00 P. M. EST.

* Coopers Rock State Park, West Virginia

WBAL also feeds the games to a network of 43 stations, covering Washington, D. C. and all or portions of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina.

* November 20 – Robert Byrd, U. S. senator from West Virginia and President pro tempore of the United States Senate ( d. 2010 )

Nicholson, state senator, U. S. Senator, and Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court ; Sterling Marlin, NASCAR driver ; Dr. Marion Dorsett, inventor of the serum to control hog cholera ; Fran McKee, first female line officer to hold the rank of rear admiral in the U. S. Navy ; Lyman T Johnson, civil rights movement ; and Raphael Benjamin West former Nashville mayor and Civil Rights ally, noted architect James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr. and John Harlan Willis, United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the Medal of Honor — for his actions during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

The station was begun in 1948 by his uncle, Marshall Formby, a former state senator and highway commissioner from West Texas.

* Marshall Formby, a former county judge for Dickens County and a state senator, practiced law in Plainview and owned a chain of West Texas radio stations.

Born in Nice, France, to John L. Mitchell, a wealthy Wisconsin senator and his wife Harriet, Mitchell grew up on an estate in what is now the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis, Wisconsin.

* Cornelius Calvin Sale, birth name of Robert Byrd, senator and congressman from West Virginia

The American President includes mention of a Governor Stackhouse, while there is a Minnesota senator Howard Stackhouse ( George Coe ) in the two West Wing episodes " The Stackhouse Filibuster " and " The Red Mass ".

Assassinated police chief Sid Hatfield famously credited himself as a member of the Hatfield clan ( his father, Jacob, was a son of Jeremiah Hatfield and Rachel Vance ), while West Virginia Governor Henry D. Hatfield, Washington senator Brian Hatfield and singer-songwriter Juliana Hatfield are actual descendants of the Hatfield family.

For example, Strom Thurmond, a U. S. senator from South Carolina, left office at age 100 after almost half a century in the body, while Robert Byrd of West Virginia was born in 1917 and served in the Senate from 1959 to his death in 2010.

Wise's political career began in 1980, when he defeated an incumbent senator for election to the state Senate of West Virginia as a Democrat from the state capital, Charleston.

* Jay Rockefeller, U. S. senator from West Virginia

He also had a recurring role as Captain Owen Sebring on the military drama JAG and played a Republican senator on two episodes of The West Wing.

Sir Frank Mortimer Maglinne Worrell ( 1 August 1924, Bank Hall, St Michael, Barbados – 13 March 1967, Kingston, Jamaica ) is sometimes referred to by his nickname of Tae and was a West Indies cricketer and Jamaican senator.

* Seth Gillette, fictional senator in the television series The West Wing

From 1973 until January 2007, when state senator John S. Wilder was defeated in his reelection bid for the speakership of the state senate, both houses of the Tennessee General Assembly had been led by West Tennesseans.

In 1851, legislation introduced by Jefferson Davis, senator from Mississippi and former secretary of war as well as a graduate from West Point, was enacted by Congress and funds were appropriated for the creation of the United States Soldiers ’ Home.

Rockefeller went on to serve as senator from West Virginia in the United States Senate from 1986 to the present date.

He became senior senator from the state upon the passing of West Virginia's long-time senator Robert C. Byrd in June 2010.

* Robert Byrd, former senior senator in the United States Senate from West Virginia, though he had long since disavowed any connection with the Ku Klux Klan.

According to West Wing writer and producer Eli Attie, Santos was based on then Illinois state senator, and later U. S. Senator, then President Barack Obama.

Aden Ridgeway of the Australian Democrats served as a senator during the 1990s, but No indigenous person was elected to the House of Representatives, until West Australian Liberal Ken Wyatt, in August 2010.

* Smathers Beach, a popular Key West destination, is named after the senator.

* Randy White ( West Virginia politician ), West Virginia state senator