Gaston Caperton
| Gaston Caperton | |
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| 31st Governor of West Virginia | |
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In office January 16, 1989 – January 13, 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Arch Moore |
| Succeeded by | Cecil H. Underwood |
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William Gaston Caperton III February 21, 1940 Charleston, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) |
Dee Kessel (Divorced) Rachael Worby (Divorced) Idit Harel (Divorced) |
| Education | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA) |
William Gaston Caperton III (born February 21, 1940) was the 31st Governor of the U.S. state of West Virginia from 1989–97. He was president of the College Board, which administers the nationally recognized SAT and AP tests, from 1999–2012. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Caperton was born in Charleston, West Virginia. He attended Dexter School (Brookline, Massachusetts), Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
After graduation he returned to Charleston to manage a family-owned insurance firm. He soon became its principal owner and, under his watch, it became the tenth largest privately owned insurance brokerage firm in the nation. Caperton owned a bank and mortgage banking firm. Caperton was elected governor in his first attempt to seek public office in 1988.
In the 1988 gubernatorial election, Caperton, initially considered a long-shot for his party's nomination, defeated the Republican Party incumbent, Arch A. Moore, Jr.
In the 1992 election, Caperton was challenged by Charlotte Pritt in the Democratic primary. Caperton won the primary and the general election, defeating the Republican candidate, West Virginia Secretary of Agriculture Cleve Benedict, and Pritt, running as a write-in candidate. Caperton was constitutionally prohibited from running for a third consecutive term in 1996.
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