Henry M. Mathews

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American military officer, lawyer, and politician (1834-1884)

United States PoliticiansLived 1834 to 1884 · aged 50

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S. State of West Virginia. Mathews served as the seventh attorney general of West Virginia (1873-1877) and the fifth governor of West Virginia (1877-1881), being the first former Confederate elected to the governorship in the state.

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Brigadier General Alexander W. Reynolds, uncle of Major Henry Mason Mathews

An 1870s political cartoon calling for "Death to Bourbonism"

Blockade of engines at Martinsburg, West Virginia, July 16, 1877

West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia. Charleston was made the state's permanent state capital during Mathews' administration.[28]

Late 19th-century White Sulfur Springs Company

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Henry Mason Mathews was an American military officer, lawyer, and politician in the U.S. State of West Virginia. Mathews served as the seventh attorney general of West Virginia (1873-1877) and the fifth governor of West Virginia (1877-1881), being the first former Confederate elected to the governorship in the state. Born into a Virginia political family, Mathews attended the University of Virginia and afterward practiced law before the outbreak of the American Civil War. When Virginia seceded from the United States, in 1861, he volunteered for the Confederate States Army and served in the western theater as a major of artillery. Following the war, Mathews was elected to the West Virginia Senate, but was denied the seat due to state restrictions on former Confederates. Mathews participated in the 1872 state constitutional convention that overturned these restrictions, and in that same year was elected attorney general of West Virginia. After one term, he was elected governor of West Virginia.

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