Warren McGraw

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Warren McGraw is a long serving politician and trial lawyer in West Virginia, known for his liberal views and close association with labor union leaders. He is a graduate of Morris Harvey College and the Wake Forest University law school. He is the brother of West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw. The McGraws are the only two brothers to have both held the office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the State of West Virginia.

He is a member of the United States Democratic Party. He was elected to the state Senate in 1972 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. After making a number of very controversial decisions, he was defeated by Brent D. Benjamin in a hotly-contested election in 2004. McGraw's campaign in this election is documented in the film The Last Campaign by Wayne Ewing, a follow up to the 1972 film If Elected which followed his first campaign for State Senate.