Isaac Sponaugle is an American attorney and former member of the
West Virginia House of Delegates
The West Virginia House of Delegates is the lower house of the West Virginia Legislature. Only three states—Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia—refer to their lower house as the House of Delegates.
Organization
Regular sessions begin with ...
, representing the 55th District from 2013 till 2020. Sponaugle served as an intern to
Senator
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
Robert Byrd
Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was an American politician and musician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010. A ...
.
Sponaugle gave up his seat to be a candidate for the Democratic nomination to be West Virginia's Attorney General in 2020 and lost the race by just 145 votes,
but he conceded without any request for a recount, hoping to unify his party behind nominee
Sam Petsonk in order to defeat
Patrick Morrisey
Patrick James Morrisey (born December 21, 1967) is an American politician and attorney serving as the 34th Attorney General of West Virginia since 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Morrisey was elected Attorney General of West Vir ...
, the Republican incumbent.
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Legislative page
1979 births
21st-century American politicians
Living people
Democratic Party members of the West Virginia House of Delegates
People from Harrisonburg, Virginia
West Virginia University alumni
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