Harry J. Capehart

rdf:langString Harry J. Capehart

rdf:langString Harry J. Capehart

rdf:langString Harry J. Capehart

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rdf:langString Oak Grove Cemetery, Bluewell, West Virginia, U.S.

rdf:langString Harry J. Capehart Sr Signature 1923 .svg

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rdf:langString Portrait of Capehart, published in 1923

rdf:langString Arthur Froe Capehart

rdf:langString Harry Jheopart Capehart Jr.

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rdf:langString Member of the Howard University

rdf:langString Member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from McDowell County

rdf:langString Joseph Capehart

rdf:langString Maggie Woodyard Capehart

rdf:langString Harvey Hagerman

rdf:langString J. Buell Swope

rdf:langString Robert F. Waldron

rdf:langString Lawyer, politician, and businessperson

rdf:langString Anna Livingstone Hurley Capehart

rdf:langString Brooks F. Beavers

rdf:langString E. Howard Harper

rdf:langString E. W. Cullen

rdf:langString Simon Solins

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rdf:langString Harry Jheopart Capehart Sr. (May 2, 1881 – May 15, 1955) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessperson in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Capehart served as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, representing McDowell County for three consecutive terms, from 1919 to 1925. He also served as an assessor, city councilperson, and city attorney for Keystone, West Virginia. Capehart was born in 1881 in Charleston, West Virginia. He was educated in Charleston's public schools, attended Fairview Normal College in Proctorville, Ohio, and earned his Bachelor of Laws degree (LL.B.) with honors from Howard University School of Law in 1913. Within one week of his graduation from Howard, Capehart was admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. The same year, he opened a law office in Keystone. Capehart was active in the West Virginia Republican Party and became a party leader in McDowell County. After serving as Keystone's city assessor and as a city councilperson, Capehart was elected to three consecutive terms in the West Virginia House of Delegates representing McDowell County. As a house member, Capehart accomplished several significant legislative achievements. In 1919, he introduced House Bill (H.B.) 15, which established a state institution for West Virginia's African-American deaf and blind students under the management of the state's Board of Control. And in 1921, Capehart introduced H.B. 270, which established penalties for lynchings and became known as the Capehart Anti-Lynch Law. Following his tenure in the West Virginia House of Delegates, Capehart was appointed an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia in 1932, and in 1934, he was appointed a conciliation commissioner for the Farm Credit Administration during the Great Depression. Capehart continued to be active in the Republican Party at the national, state, and local levels. He served as the director of the Colored Division of the West Virginia Republican Party Headquarters, and he chaired the Republican National Committee (RNC) Eastern Colored Division Planning Board for the Wendell Willkie campaign leading up to the 1940 United States presidential election. In 1937, the National Bar Association appointed Capehart as its regional director for Virginia and West Virginia. He died in 1955 in Bluefield, West Virginia.

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