C. Donald Robertson

Robert C. Byrd was reelected to the U.S. House of Representatives

Elizabeth Hallanan was elected to the House of Delegates

Cecil Underwood became West Virginia's youngest governor, and the first Republican governor since 1932

Arch A. Moore Jr. was elected to Congress

West Virginia voted Republican in presidential elections

Milton Ferguson ran unsuccessfully for governor

JFK narrowly defeated Richard Nixon

John Kelly was elected state treasurer

William "Wally" Barron was elected governor of West Virginia

Chauncey H. Browning won the election to a full 12-year term to the court

William Revercomb ran unsuccessfully for governor

Cecil Underwood unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate

William Brotherton Jr. was elected to the state Senate

Gus Douglass was elected Commissioner of Agriculture

Gus Douglass first elected commissioner of agriculture

Legislature passed Modern Budget Amendment

Wild boars were released by the Department of Natural Resources as a game species for reclaimed surface mines

M. Blane Michael served as assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York

A $30 state clothing allowance reached about 44,000 welfare children

Morgantown Glassware Guild closed

John Norman was named the Charleston Sunday Gazette-Mail West Virginian of the Year

Phase I of the WVU Personal Rapid Transit project was completed

William Page Pitt retired

Nick Rahall graduated from Duke University

Cecil Roberts began working at Carbon Fuel's No. 31 mine in Winifrede

An extended care facility was added to St. Francis Hospital

Alex Schoenbaum and Ray Danner merged their companies to form Shoney's Big Boy Enterprises

The first permanent building of Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College was dedicated in Williamson

Leon Sullivan was appointed to the board of directors of General Motors

Both Honey in the Rock and Hatfields and McCoy were performed by Theatre West Virginia

The woolen mill in Parsons closed

ACTION became the federal agency that oversaw VISTA and the Peace Corps

Charleston returned to the International League in baseball

An editorial advisory board for the West Virginia History was created

The Coliseum basketball arena was completed at WVU

Robert Kreis instituted Wheeling Symphony's first concert tours

Bill Withers released his first album, Just As I am

WVU at Parkersburg separated from WVU to the state's first community college

Chuck Yeager was assigned as U.S. defense representative to Pakistan

John Zontini was inducted into the West Virginia Sports Writers' Hall of Fame

Barry Vance began spending summers painting in the Shenandoah Valley

Clyde Ware's second novel, The Eden Tree, was published