Warren McGraw

Warren McGraw is a long serving politician and trial lawyer in West Virginia, know for his liberal views and close association with labor union leaders. He is a graduate of the University of Charleston and the Wake Forest University law school.

He is a member of the United States Democratic Party. He was elected to the state Senate in 1976 and re-elected through a term ending in 1985. He became the president of the Senate, in 1980.

In 1984 he gave up his Senate seat to enter the primary election for Governor of West Virginia. However, he finished third in a three-way election. He then resumed his career as a trial lawyer.

In 1990 he was elected to his local school board. In 1998 he was elected to an unexpired term on the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. His decisions soon became very controvercial, and he was defeated by Brent D. Benjamin in a hotly-contested election in 2004.