Henry Clay McWhorter was a lawyer, judge, and politician in West Virginia.

McWhorter served in the Union Army, reaching the rank of captain. He resigned from active service in 1863 due to a wound and spent the remainder of the war as a clerk in the provost marshal

Provost Marshal

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's office. After the war he was admitted to the bar (1866) and spent four terms in the West Virginia House of Delegates

West Virginia House of Delegates

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, serving as Speaker 1868-9. He was again a Delegate from 1885-7. In 1896 he was elected to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

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 for a twelve year term.

McWhorter was married four times. He married Mary Hardman in 1857; she died in 1878. He married Eliza F. McWhorter in 1879; she died in 1881. He married Lucy M. Clark in 1885; she died in 1900. He married Caroline M. Gates in 1904.

Henry C. McWhorter's brother Joseph M. McWhorter

Joseph Marcellus McWhorter

Joseph Marcellus McWhorter was a West Virginia lawyer, politician, educator, and judge....

(1828–1913) was also a notable West Virginia lawyer, politician, and judge.