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Jan 9, 2017 · Earl Ray Tomblin wields the gavel as president of the West Virginia Senate, a post he held longer than any other Senate president in the state’s history.
Earl Ray Tomblin (born March 15, 1952) is an American politician who served as the 35th governor of West Virginia from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the West Virginia Senate from 1980 to 2011 and as president of the West Virginia Senate from 1995 to 2011.
Dec 29, 2016 · Charleston, W.Va. — West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin and his wife, First Lady Joanne Jaeger Tomblin, are counting down their final days at the Statehouse. And after 42 years in...
Oct 4, 2011 · Earl Ray Tomblin (b. March 15, 1952 in Logan County, West Virginia) was the 35th governor of West Virginia. A Democrat, he first assumed the office of acting governor by virtue of his role as President of the West Virginia State Senate in January 2010, and was elected on October 4, 2011 to serve the remainder of former governor Joe Manchin 's ...
He was elected as a Democrat from Logan County to the House of Delegates in 1974, when he was only 22 years old and still a senior at West Virginia University. After serving three two-year terms in the House, Tomblin was elected to the first of eight four-year terms in the Senate in 1980.
Oct 5, 2011 · Tomblin, a 36-year politician who had served as acting governor since Joe Manchin left the governorship for the Senate last fall, defeated Republican drilling executive Bill Maloney in a...
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Jan 9, 2017 · In 1995, Tomblin was elected Senate president, arguably the most important position in state government next to the governor himself. He would hold the position until appointed as governor-elect, a replacement for Gov. Joe Manchin, who resigned after being elected to the United States Senate in 2010.
