Below is a list of historic and otherwise prominent politicians from Ohio County, West Virginia: * Aquilla B. Caldwell (R) - WV Attorney General (1863–1865, 1869–1871) * Granville D. Hall (R) - WV Secretary of State (1865–1867) * Chester D. Hubbard (R) - U.S. House of Representatives (1865–1869) * Thayer Melvin (R) - WV Attorney General (1867–1869) * Lewis Baker (D) - President of the WV Senate (1871–1872); US Ambassador to Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua * (D) - Speaker of the WV House of Delegates (1871–1872) * (D) - Speaker of the WV House of Delegates (1872–1875) * James Paull (D) - Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (1873–1875) * (D) - WV Secretary of State (1877–1881) * (D) - Speaker of the WV House of Delegates (1883–1885, 1889–1891) * (D) - WV Attorney