John Marshall Wolverton (January 31, 1872 – August 19, 1944) was a

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from

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. Born in

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located in

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, Wolverton attended country schools and Glenville and Fairmont State Normal Schools. He graduated from the law department of the

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at Morgantown in 1901. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Grantsville, West Virginia. He moved to

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in 1904, and served as mayor of Richwood in 1918 and 1919. He served as prosecuting attorney of Nicholas County, 1913 to 1917 and 1921 to 1925. Wolverton was elected as a Republican to the

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(March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1927). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress. Wolverton was elected to the

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(March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1931). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the

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, and for election in 1932 to the

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and in 1936 to the

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. He resumed the practice of law in Richwood, where he died August 19, 1944. He was interred in the Odd Fellows Cemetery.

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