![]() Harley Martin Kilgore Colonel, United States Army United States Senator |
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Courtesy
of the Congress of the United States:
Senator from West Virginia; born in Brown,
Harrison County, W.Va., January 11, 1893; attended the public schools;
graduated from the law department of West Virginia University at Morgantown
in 1914 and was admitted to the bar the same year; taught school in Hancock,
W.Va., in 1914 and 1915; organized the first high school in Raleigh County,
W.Va., in 1915, serving as its principal for one year; commenced the practice
of law in Beckley, W.Va., in 1916; during the First World War served in
the Infantry from 1917, until discharged as a captain in 1920; organized
the West Virginia National Guard in 1921 and retired as a colonel in 1953;
judge of
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Updated: 13 September 1999 Updated: 3 December 2000 Updated: 15 December 2001 Updated: 8 March 2003 |
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