Governor Bob Wise
Governor William G. Conley
Comedian Soupy Sales was born Milton Supman on Jan. 8, 1926. He's pictured here in Lunch with Soupy in 1960.
Louise McNeill Pease was born on the family farm in Pocahontas County on Jan. 9, 1911. She was West Virginia Poet Laureate.
On Jan. 9, 2014, hazardous chemicals were discovered leaking into the Elk River, contaminating the water supply for a nine-county region.
Foo Conner photo
Judge Elizabeth Virginia Hallanan, West Virginia's first federal court judge, was born in Charleston on Jan. 10, 1925.
Minnie Buckingham Harper, the first African-American woman to serve as a member of a state legislative body in the country, was appointed to fill the unexpired term of her husband, E. Howard Harper on Jan. 10, 1928.