Capitol Building Commission with Governor Conley (fourth from right) and architect Cass Gilbert (sixth from right) - January 1932

Original commissioners (1921-1925)

• Governor Ephraim F. Morgan
• Gohen C. Arnold (President of the Senate 1921-1923) from Buckhannon Edwin M.
• Keatley (Speaker of the House of Delegates 1921-1922) from Charleston
• William McKell from Glen Jean
• Herbert Fitzpatrick from Huntington
• Fred M. Staunton from Charleston
• N. Price Whitaker from Wheeling
• Houston G. Young (Secretary of State 1921-1925) from Charleston

(McKell resigned in 1922 and was replaced by Harry P. Camden & Parkersburg; Whitaker died in 1922 and was replaced by Virgil L. Highland from Clarksburg; Highland resigned in 1923 and was replaced by George A. Laughlin from Wheeling; Young resigned position of secretary to the commission in 1923 and Bonner Hill of Charleston was appointed)

Commission under the Gore administration (1925-1929)

Governor Howard M. Gore Retained:

• Arnold
• Camden
• Fitzpatrick
• Staunton
• Keatley
• Laughlin

(Camden died in 1925 and was replaced by former governor Wiliam A. MacCorkle from Charleston; Staunton died in 1926 and was replaced by Mrs. J. T. (Daisy M.) Peadro from Parkersburg)

Commission under the Conley administration (1929-1932)

Governor William G. Conley Retained:

• Arnold
• Peadro
• MacCorkle
• Keatley
• Fitzpatrick
• Laughlin

Added:

• M. Z. White (President of the Senate 1925-1933) from Williamson
• J. William Cummins (Speaker of the House of Delegates 1929-1932) from Wheeling Boyd Jarrell from Huntington
• C. W. Dillon from Fayetteville

(MacCorkle died in 1930 and was replaced by Charles K. Payne from Charleston)

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