Slay News··Friday, November 6, 2026, 5:34 PM

Jay Rockefeller, Five-Term Democrat Senator and Former West Virginia Governor, Dies at 89

Former Sen. John D. “Jay” Rockefeller (D-WV), an heir to the Standard Oil fortune who served two terms as West Virginia governor and three decades in the Senate, died Friday at his home in Washington, D.C.

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