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Elected West Virginia's 33rd governor in 2000, Robert Ellsworth "Bob" Wise Jr. was born January 6, 1948, in Washington, D.C. He grew up with his parents and two sisters in the Kanawha Valley, where his father worked for 30 years for McDonough Cape...
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