In 1929, he graduated from Princeton and was active in management of 
        family interests as well as art collecting. He supported numerous
        civic and philantropic ventures, such a Lincoln Center for the
        Performing Arts, the Unityed Negro College Fund, and the Population
        Council.
 

Source: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 2001.

        In 1976 he was, as a Democrat, elected governor of West Virginia;
        reelected in 1980. He was then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and
        reelected in 1990 and 1996.