On This Day in West Virginia History, April 15th

April 15, 2023

Mountaineer News

Vintage West Virginia

Peter Godwin Van Winkle, who represented West Virginia in the United States Senate from 1863 to 1869, died in Parkersburg on April 15, 1872.

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