Shelley Moore Capito (R)
About The Candidate
- Office Sought: Representative, West Virginia (2)
- Birth Date: Sept. 21, 1953
- Occupation: Career Counselor
- Religion: Presbyterian
- Web site: http://capito.house.gov/
Education
- Duke University, BA
- University of Virginia, MEd
Shelley Moore Capito was born in Glen Dale, W.Va., and grew up in West Virginia's Northern Panhandle. She moved to Charleston when her father, Arch A. Moore Jr., was elected governor in 1968. She now resides in Charleston.
Capito received a bachelor's degree in zoology from Duke University in 1975 and a master's degree in education from the University of Virginia in 1976.
She worked as a career counselor at West Virginia State College before her election to the state Legislature in 1996.
She and her husband, Charles, have three children.
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