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Born in 1810 in present-day Boone County, Methodist minister Robert Hager was a delegate to the state’s first constitutional convention in Wheeling from 1861 to 1863. He supported including a provision for gradual emancipation in West Virginia and also a free school system. Between 1863 and 1869, Hager served terms in both houses of the state legislature. He died in Kentucky in 1878.
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Madison, West Virginia · United States
