Homer A. Holt

Homer Adams Holt (March 1, 1898 – January 16, 1975) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 20th governor of West Virginia from 1937 to 1941.Born in Lewisburg, West Virginia, he attended the Greenbrier Military School there and then went on to graduate from Washington and Lee University in 1918, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.After serving in the army during World War I, he returned to Washington and Lee in 1920 and studied law, receiving his degree in 1923.Holt had been attorney general of West Virginia during the time of the Hawks Nest Tunnel tragedy and "During his term as attorney general, Holt successfully defended Union Carbide in the Supreme Court Trial, United States V. State of West Virginia, 295 U.S. 463 (1935)".Holt did not want the guide to be published, he believed that it would discredit the state and was "propaganda from start to finish".
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