William A. MacCorkle

William Alexander MacCorkle, was an American teacher, lawyer, prosecutor, the ninth Governor of West Virginia and state legislator of West Virginia, and financier.

7 May 1857

Born on the same birth day (7 May): Alex Smith • Almudena Grandes • Anne Dudley • Archibald MacLeish • Ayelet Shaked • Bill Kreutzmann • Calvin Booth • Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser • David Tomlinson • Domenico Bartolucci • Gene Wolfe • Jan Peter Balkenende • John Bannon • Lenox Hewitt • Matt Helders • Nicholas Hytner • Peter Carey (novelist) • Rendra Karno • Shawn Marion • Tom Norman • Władysław Reymont

Born in the same month (May 1857): John Jacob Abel • Pope Pius XI • Ronald Ross • Theo van Gogh (art dealer) • Theodor Curtius • Williamina Fleming