GOVERNOR WILLIAM GLASSCOCK AND PROGRESSIVE POLITICS IN WEST VIRGINIA

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GOVERNOR WILLIAM E. GLASSCOCI{ AND PROGRESSIVE POLITICS IN WEST VIRGINIA WEST VIRGINIA AND APPAIACHIA A SERIES EDITED BYRONALD L. LEWIS VOLUME 9 Other books in the series: Transnational West Virginia Edited by Ken Fones-Wolf The Blackwater Chronicle Edited by Timothy Sweet Clash ofLoyalties By John Shaffer Ajjlicting the Comfortable By Thomas F. Stafford Bringing Down the Mountains By Shirley Stewart Burns Monongah: The Tragic Story ofthe 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster By Davitt McAteer Sectionalism in Virginia from 1776 to 1881, Second Edition By Charles Ambler Matewan Before the Massacre By Rebecca J. Bailey GOVERNOR WILLIAM E. GLASSCOCI( AND PROGRESSIVE POLITICS IN WEST VIRGINIA Gary Jackson Tucker MORGANTOWN 2008 West Virginia University Press, Morgantown 26506© 2008 by West Virginia University Press All rights reserved First edition published 2008 by West Virginia University Press Printed in the United States of America 151413 12 11 100908 123456789 ISBN-l0 1-933202-35-1 ISBN-13 978-1-933202-35-8 (alk. paper) Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Tucker, Gary J. (Gary Jackson), 1940Governor William E. Glasscock and progressive politics in West Virginia / Gary Jackson Tucker. -- 1st ed. p. cm. -- (West Virginia and Appalachia; 9) ISBN 978-1-933202-35-8 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Glasscock, Wm. E. (William Ellsworth), 1862-1925. 2. Governors--West Virginia--Biography. 3. West Virginia--Politics and government--20th century. 1. Title. F241.G55T83 2008 975.4'041092--dc22 [B] 2008049809 Cover Design by Than Saifel Cover Image: Portrait of Governor William E. Glasscock, courtesy of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Painted by Alphonse Jongers; Photographed by Michael Keller. For myfamily ...