RAHALL, Nick Joe, II, a Representative from West Virginia; born in Beckley, Raleigh
County, W.Va., May 20, 1949; graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School,
Beckley, W.Va.; A.B., Duke University, Durham, N.C., 1971; attended graduate
school, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1972; staff, Office of
the Majority Whip, United States Senate, 1971-1974; business owner; delegate,
Democratic National Conventions, 1972 and 1976; elected as a Democrat to the
Ninety-fifth and to the eighteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1977-January
3, 2015); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fourteenth
Congress in 2014; chair, Committee on Natural Resources (One Hundred Tenth and
One Hundred Eleventh Congresses).