John McWhorter (1784–1880), attorney and public official, was a militia captain during the War of 1812. He sat for his native Harrison County (later West Virginia) in the House of Delegates, 1816–17, successfully worked to create Lewis County from Harrison late in 1816, and was a delegate for the new county, 1817–18, 1819–21, and 1825–28. McWhorter represented Harrison, Lewis, and Wood counties in the Senate of Virginia, 1830–33. He was also a justice of Lewis County starting in 1817, longtime prosecuting attorney of Lewis and Braxton counties, an active Mason until his death and, late in life, a Methodist minister. In 1850 McWhorter held real estate valued at $9,375. He died in Lewis County (Lucullus V. McWhorter, “Henry McWhorter and Descendants—Col. John McWhorter,” West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarterly 2 [1902]: 69–72; Butler, Virginia Militia description begins Stuart Lee Butler, A Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812, 1988 description ends , 105, 281; Heitman, U.S. Army description begins Francis B. Heitman, comp., Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, 1903, repr. 1994, 2 vols. description ends , 1:682; Leonard, General Assembly description begins Cynthia Miller Leonard, comp., The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619–January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members, 1978 description ends ; Edward Conrad Smith, A History of Lewis County, West Virginia [1920]; DNA: RG 29, CS, W.Va., Lewis Co., 1850, 1870; Weston [W.Va.] Democrat, 17 Apr. 1880).

George Izzard Davisson (d. 1836), attorney and public official, was captain of an artillery battalion during the War of 1812. He was the senior warden of a newly organized Masonic lodge in Harrison County in 1814. Davisson represented that county in the House of Delegates, 1813–14 and 1830–31, and a district in the Senate of Virginia that included Harrison and grew from seven to nine counties during his service from 1816 to 1820. In 1819 he was one of the first attorneys to qualify to plead before the first federal court west of the Allegheny Mountains. Davisson also served as clerk of the Harrison County circuit court in 1831 (Butler, Virginia Militia description begins Stuart Lee Butler, A Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812, 1988 description ends , 104, 245, 270; Leonard, General Assembly description begins Cynthia Miller Leonard, comp., The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619–January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members, 1978 description ends ; Henry Hammond, History of Harrison County West Virginia [1910]; gravestone inscription in Daniel Davisson DAR Cemetery, Clarksburg, W.Va.).