Coal baron
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A coal baron is a term colloquially used to describe an entrepreneur or industrialist who possesses great power or influence through the possession and operation of coal mines. The phenomenon exists i
Joseph Keppler's 1889 cartoon depicting monopolists as dominating American politics as the "Bosses of the Senate".
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Jim Justice
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James Conley Justice II is an American politician and businessman serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from West Virginia. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2017 to 20
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Official portrait, 2025
Then-candidate Justice (seated fifth from the left) in Fairmont, West Virginia, in September 2016.
Justice at his inauguration in January 2017.
Jim and Cathy Justice with Vice President Mike Pence in March 2017