Joseph Marcellus McWhorter, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Joseph Marcellus McWhorter

American politician

Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1828

Date of Death: 18-Aug-1913

Profession: judge, teacher, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Joseph Marcellus McWhorter

  • Joseph Marcellus McWhorter (born near Jane Lew in what was then the state of Virginia, April 30, 1828; died Lewisburg, West Virginia, August 18, 1913) was a West Virginia lawyer, politician, educator, and judge.Born the eldest son in a farming family, McWhorter supplemented his public school education with extensive reading, becoming at times a school teacher himself.
  • In 1856 he was appointed county clerk of newly organized Roane County and was later elected to that post twice.
  • He was elected to the first West Virginian legislature.
  • After serving as superintendent of the state penitentiary, he was elected State Auditor in 1864 and 1866.
  • He was elected secretary of the newly organized West Virginia Insurance Company in 1869, but resigned when he was appointed judge of the Seventh judicial circuit in 1870.
  • McWhorter moved to Lewisburg and made that his residence for the rest of his life.
  • After his term as judge expired at the end of 1872, he was appointed superintendent of schools for Greenbrier County.
  • He was elected mayor of Lewisburg in 1887.
  • In 1892 he ran unsuccessfully for judge of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
  • He was elected to an eight-year term on the circuit court in 1896, the same year his brother Henry C.
  • McWhorter was elected to the Supreme Court of Appeals. McWhorter was married twice.
  • His first wife was Julia Stalnaker (died August 26, 1869) and they had ten children.
  • He married Julia Kinsley (1837-June 1913) in 1870 and they had four children.
  • His son Louis E.
  • McWhorter also became a lawyer and served in the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1905, representing Kanawha County.

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