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04 May

Legislature pulled its support from incumbent U.S. Senator Johnson Camden and elected Charles Faulkner Jr. of Martinsburg to the Senate

U.S. Senator and industrialist Johnson Newlon Camden (March 6, 1828-April 25, 1908) was born in Lewis County. He opened one of the first oil wells in West Virginia in January 1861 and later helped John D. Rockefeller establish Standard Oil's natio...

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