On This Day
in West Virginia History...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt in parade car with West Virginia Governor Homer Holt and Senator Matthew Neely, Charleston, September 3, 1940
Malcolm R. Mathews Jr. Collection

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited Charleston and South Charleston on September 3, 1940.

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Newspaper articles on FDR's visit to Charleston and South Charleston, September 3, 1940

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