Ephraim F. Morgan
He served as a judge of the Marion County Intermediate Court from 1907 to 1912 and as a member of the West Virginia Public Service Commission from 1915 to 1920.In late summer 1921, the governor called upon President Warren G. Harding to dispatch federal troops to end an armed miners' march in Boone and Logan counties.A more detailed discussion of the 1921 armed miners' march and the Battle of Blair Mountain can be found in Clayton D. Laurie's "The United States Army and the Return to Normalcy in Labor Dispute Interventions: The Case of the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars, 1920–1921" in West Virginia History, Volume 50 (1991).One week before leaving office, Ephraim and Alma Morgan became the first residents of the present West Virginia Governor's Mansion.After his term as governor, Morgan served as solicitor for the United States Department of Commerce before retiring in Fairmont, West Virginia.