By Joselyn King, The Intelligencer
WHEELING, W.Va. — Former West Virginia Sen. Jeff Kessler crossed paths with former President Jimmy Carter a few times over the decades, and each time he came away believing Carter to be “a good human being.”
“A lot of people sell Bibles and profess to live by it, but he was a walking, living example of someone living by the tenants of the Bible,” Kessler said of the 39th president.
Carter died last week at the age of 100.
The first time Kessler met Carter — albeit briefly –was in 1977 when Carter was president and Kessler was a student at the former West Liberty State College who was in Charleston at the state Legislature as a Frasure-Singleton intern.
Carter and the secret service agents who accompanied him made a visit to the West Virginia Capitol Building, and they walked up the curved steps in the rotunda leading from the main floor to the legislative chambers on the second floor.
