Jay Rockefeller, a Giant of West Virginia Politics, Dies at 89
Rockefeller came from one of the nation’s richest families to spend a half century in public service in one of the poorest states.
A few years out of college at age 27, Rockefeller moved to the West Virginia mining community of Emmons to participate in the Volunteers in Service to America program, a time that Rockefeller said proved transformative. (Susan Walsh/AP)
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