Governor Arch Moore greets the public during the opening ceremonies for the East Huntington Bridge in August 1985.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Former Gov. Arch Alfred Moore Jr., whose guilty pleas to federal corruption charges overshadowed his record as his era’s most successful Republican in Democrat-dominated West Virginia, died Wednesday. He was 91.
The three-term governor, congressman, state legislator, and father of U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., died Wednesday evening in Charleston “with his family by his side,” according to a news release from Capito’s office.
“Dad loved the state of West Virginia as if it were a member of our family,” the release said. “Serving West Virginians was at the core of his very being and he cherished every moment of it.”
In Huntington, Moore was instrumental in the development of the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, which was established in 1977 as part of an initiative set forth by the former governor…
