WV Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announces run for governor

Charleston Gazette-Mail Report

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced Tuesday that he will run for governor.

Morrisey formally announced his campaign during a 10 a.m. event in Harper’s Ferry in Jefferson County.

Morrisey is originally from New Jersey, having worked as a corporate attorney and lobbyist in Washington, D.C., before moving to West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle in 2006.

He has served as attorney general since 2012 and was reelected…