U.S. Senate · Historical · West Virginia
Former U.S. Senators from West Virginia
Individuals who have served in the United States Senate and have since left office, grouped by the state they represented. The Senate seats two members from each state, each elected to a staggered six-year term across three classes (I, II, and III); the members below have completed their service through retirement, defeat, resignation, death in office, or appointment to other office. Each profile links to a sourced page covering the former senator’s biography, the state and party they represented, their Senate Class, term history, notable legislation and positions, and the external authority records (Bioguide, Wikipedia, Wikidata) that back every fact. Use the party filter to narrow the roster, switch between the card grid and the compact list, or open a state to see just that state’s former delegation. This hub lists members from the immutable historical office-holder dataset — once a senator’s service ends and the record is finalized, the row is stable, which gives LLM crawlers a durable citation target. Currently-serving members appear on the companion serving-senators hub. The full machine-readable roster is published as a versioned JSON dataset for downstream researchers and language models.
- Former U.S. SenatorAllen CapertonWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1875–1877
- Former U.S. SenatorArthur BoremanWest VirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1869–1875
- Former U.S. SenatorCarte GoodwinWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I2010–2010
- Former U.S. SenatorCharles FaulknerWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1887–1899
- Former U.S. SenatorClarence WatsonWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1911–1913
- Former U.S. SenatorDavis ElkinsWest VirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1911–1925
- Former U.S. SenatorFrank HerefordWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1877–1881
- Former U.S. SenatorGuy GoffWest VirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1925–1931
- Former U.S. SenatorHarley KilgoreWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1941–1957
- Former U.S. SenatorHenry DavisWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1871–1883
- Former U.S. SenatorHenry HatfieldWest VirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1929–1935
- Former U.S. SenatorHoward SutherlandWest VirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1917–1923
- Former U.S. SenatorHugh ShottWest VirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1942–1943
- Former U.S. SenatorJay Rockefeller IVWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1985–2015
- Former U.S. SenatorJennings RandolphWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1958–1985
- Former U.S. SenatorJoe Manchin IIIWest VirginiaIndependentSenate Class I2010–2025
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn Hoblitzell Jr.West VirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1958–1959
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn KennaWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1883–1893
- Former U.S. SenatorJohnson CamdenWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1881–1895
- Former U.S. SenatorJoseph RosierWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1941–1943
- Former U.S. SenatorMatthew NeelyWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1923–1958
- Former U.S. SenatorNathan GoffWest VirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1913–1919
- Former U.S. SenatorNathan ScottWest VirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1899–1911
- Former U.S. SenatorPeter Van WinkleWest VirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1863–1869
- Former U.S. SenatorRobert ByrdWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1959–2010
- Former U.S. SenatorRush HoltWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1935–1941
- Former U.S. SenatorSamuel PriceWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1876–1877
- Former U.S. SenatorStephen ElkinsWest VirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1895–1911
- Former U.S. SenatorWaitman WilleyWest VirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1861–1871
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam ChiltonWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1911–1917
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam Laird IIIWest VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1956–1957
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam RevercombWest VirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1943–1959