# Governor James C. Justice

# Last Modification Date: Oct 21, 2019

Oct 21, 2019

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Gov. James C. Justice has spent his career creating thousands of jobs. He joined the family business, Bluestone Industries, in 1976. Because of his strong interest in nature and the outdoors, he started Justice Family Farms in 1977, and he is now the largest farmer east of the Mississippi River, farming more than 50,000 acres of corn, wheat and soybeans in four states. He became president and CEO of Bluestone Industries and Bluestone Coal in 1993. In 2016, Justice was elected the 36th governor of West Virginia.

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