Below is a list of historic and otherwise prominent politicians from Ohio County, West Virginia:

Aquilla B. Caldwell (R) - WV Attorney General (1863–1865, 1869–1871) Granville D. Hall (R) - WV Secretary of State (1865–1867) Chester D. Hubbard (R) - U.S. House of Representatives (1865–1869) Thayer Melvin (R) - WV Attorney General (1867–1869) Lewis Baker (D) - President of the WV Senate (1871–1872); US Ambassador to Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua Elbridge G. Cracraft (D) - Speaker of the WV House of Delegates (1871–1872) William M. Miller (D) - Speaker of the WV House of Delegates (1872–1875) James Paull (D) - Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (1873–1875) Sobieski Brady (D) - WV Secretary of State (1877–1881) Joseph J. Woods (D) - Speaker of the WV House of Delegates (1883–1885, 1889–1891) Alfred Caldwell (D) - WV Attorney General (1885–1893) John O. Pendleton (D) - U.S. House of Representatives (1889–1895) Thomas S. Riley (D) - WV Attorney General (1893–1897) Blackburn B. Dovener (R) - U.S. House of Representatives (1895–1907) George W. Atkinson (R) - U.S. House of Representatives (1889–1891); Governor of West Virginia (1897–1901); Nelson E. Whitaker (R) - President of the WV Senate (1897–1899) Nathan B. Scott (R) - U.S. Senator (1899–1911) William P. Hubbard (R) - U.S. House of Representatives (1907–1911) Walter L. Fisher (R) - United States Secretary of the Interior (1911–1913) Benjamin L. Rosenbloom (R) - U.S. House of Representatives (1921–1925) Carl G. Bachmann (R) - U.S. House of Representatives (1925–1933) John William Cummins (R) - Speaker of the WV House of Delegates (1929–1931) James B. Riley"Republican Successor Seen For Judge's Seat", The Raleigh Register (June 30, 1958), p. 1. (D) - Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (1937–1958) A. C. Schiffler (R) - U.S. House of Representatives (1939–1941, 1943–1945) Francis J. Love (R) - U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1949) Thomas B. Miller (D) - Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (1977–1994) Arthur M. Recht (D) - Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (1994–1996) David McKinley (R) - U.S. House of Representatives (2011–present)

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