Brooks F. McCabe, Jr. was a
Democratic member of the
West Virginia Senate
The West Virginia Senate is the upper house of the West Virginia Legislature.
There are seventeen senatorial districts. Each district has two senators who serve staggered four-year terms. Although the Democratic Party held a supermajority in the ...
, representing the
17th district in
Kanawha County
Kanawha County ( ) is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 180,745, making it West Virginia's most populous county. The county seat is Charlest ...
. First elected in 1998, Brooks served for eight years as chairman of the Senate Committee on Economic Development. He was a member of the Senate committees on finance banking & insurance, economic development, natural resources, pensions, and government organization. Senator McCabe supported legislation sought by other business leaders relating to major reforms in workers compensation, tax policy, reducing public employee benefits (such as retirement and healthcare) and other pro-business initiatives. In addition, he sponsored legislation relating to economic development, planning and land use which large corporations favored.
McCabe's day job is managing the wealth he inherited from his ancestors and investing money he received from his trust funds in real estate. He remains the primary shareholder and managing member of West Virginia Commercial Properties LLC. As scion of one of Charleston's wealthiest families and a major landholder, he has been a major beneficiary of the pro-business policies he championed. McCabe was a longtime board member of Charleston Renaissance Corporation. He strongly supports the National Trust for Historic Preservation and its Main Street Program which he and his firm have utilized for tax credits and grants to fund numerous projects improving properties he owns.
Other boards on which he has served include the Chemical Alliance Zone, the Charleston Area Medical Center, West Virginia State College Foundation, the University of Vermont, and
The Gow School
The Gow School is a college-prep boarding and day school for students, grades 6–12, with dyslexia and similar language-based learning disabilities. Other diagnoses include developmental coordination disorder, auditory processing disorder, dy ...
(a private college preparatory school for dyslexic students in South Wales, NY).
External links
West Virginia Legislature - Senator Brooks McCabe''official government website''
Project Vote Smart - Senator Brooks McCabe (WV)profile
*''Follow the Money'' - Brooks McCabe
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Senate campaign contributions
** Company Websit
West Virginia state senators
1949 births
Living people
21st-century American politicians
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