By Stephen Smoot
The late, great Professor Robert Maddox of Marshall University used to say of West Virginia’s United States Senators, and sometimes also the Representatives, that they served a vital purpose in Congress. Most of the state’s roster of Senators going back before Stephen Benton Elkins through Harley Kilgore and Robert Byrd, he saw as the men in the middle. Had he lived, he would probably include Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito in the same club.
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