Hon. J. Nessly Porter Bio. Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted by: Valerie Crook The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 233 Hancock County HON. J. NESSLY PORTER. In business and public circles of Hancock County few names are better or more favor- ably known than that of J. Nessly Porter, secretary-treas- urer of the Globe Brick Company and the present state senator of the First District, comprising Hancock, Brooke and Ohio counties, West Virginia. Mr. Porter is a son of the late Capt. John Porter, one of the best known figures in the paving brick industry in this country, a sketch of whose career will be found on another page of this work. Since boyhood he has been identified with the brick business, and at the same time has found the opportunity to interest himself in public affairs, in which he has become prominent. Ever a promi- nent worker in party conventions, in 1915 he was chosen as the representative in the Lower House of the West Virginia Legislature of Hancock County, a post to which he was re-elected and established a splendid record. He was then sent to the Upper House, where he is an influential member of the judiciary committee and chairman of the insurance committee. He is a prominent Mason and has numerous business and civic connections. Mr. Porter mar- ried Miss Margaret Rinehart, of East Liverpool, Ohio, and they are the parents of two sons: James Nessly and Winston Allen.