Amid the Civil War, West Virginia is conceded into the Union as the 35th U.S. state, or the 24th state if the severance of the 11 Southern states were considered. That day, Arthur Boreman was introduced as West Virginia's first state senator.
Settlement of the western grounds of Virginia came step by step in the eighteenth century as pilgrims gradually advanced over the common Allegheny Plateau hindrance. The area turned out to be progressively imperative to the Virginia state government at Richmond in the nineteenth century, yet the commonness of little ranches and nonappearance of bondage started to irritate it from the east. Since slaves were checked in apportioning portrayal, well off eastern grower commanded the Virginia assembly, and requests by western Virginians for bring down duties and framework improvement were not met.
At the point when Virginia voted to withdraw after the episode of the Civil War, the dominant part of West Virginians contradicted the severance. Representatives met at Wheeling, and on June 11, 1861, invalidated the Virginian statute of withdrawal and announced "The Restored Government of Virginia," headed by Francis Pierpont. In April 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declared the affirmation of West Virginia into the Union powerful June 20, 1863.