William Wallace Barron

William Wallace Barron

Infobox Governor
name= William W. Barron
caption=
order=26th
office= Governor of West Virginia
term_start= 1961
term_end= 1965
predecessor= Cecil H. Underwood
successor= Hulett C. Smith
birth_date= birth date|1911|12|8|mf=y
birth_place= Elkins, WV
death_date= death date|2002|11|12|mf=y
death_place= Charlotte, North Carolina
spouse= Opal Wilcox Barron
profession= Politician
party= Democrat
religion= Presbyterian
footnotes=

William Wallace "Wally" Barron (December 8, 1911November 12, 2002) was a Democratic "machine politician" in West Virginia. He was the state's Governor from 1961 to 1965. He later served a prison term due to his corrupt actions.

He was born in Elkins, West Virginia. He attended Washington and Lee University and the West Virginia University Law School. During World War II, he served in the United States Army. In 1949, he was selected by the "machine" to be elected mayor of Elkins. He was then slated for the House of Delegates in 1950 and re-elected in 1952 . He resigned his seat when appointed as Liquor Control Commissioner, a position very valuable to the machine due to the opportunities to receive bribes and kickbacks, by Governor William C. Marland subsequent to the 1952 election. He was then slated as the machine's Attorney General candidate in the 1956 election, traditionally the last step before the governorship.

In 1960 he was elected governor and set about attempting to undo the clean government and civil rights reforms that had been instituted by his predecessor, Cecil H. Underwood, the only Republican to hold the governor's office between 1932 and 1968. He was, for the most part, unsuccessful in this, and the death of the "machine" followed.

After his term as governor, Barron established a law practice in Charleston. In 1968, he and most of his top officials were indicted on charges of bribery. All but Barron were found guilty. However, in 1971, he was again indicted on jury tampering charges associated with the 1968 trial. He was sentenced to prison, fined, and stripped of his law license. After serving a four-year sentence, Barron retired to Pompano Beach, Florida. He died on November 12, 2002 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

External links

* [http://www.wvculture.org/history/barron.html Biography of William W. Barron]
* [http://www.wvculture.org/history/barronia.html Inaugural Address of William W. Barron]


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