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Ken Hechler is the youngest child in this family photo.
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Ken Hechler speaks to a man in Wayne County.
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Ken Hechler fills in as a Marshall University political science professor for another professor who's on sabbatical in spring 1957.
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West Virginia author and historian Ken Hechler talks about his new book, "Super Marine! The Sgt. Roland D. 'Buddy' Jones Story" in November 2007 at the Putnam County Public Library in Teays Valley.
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Former U.S. Congressman and Secretary of State Ken Hechler, right, chats in January 2003 with professor Philip Carter before the start of the Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium luncheon held at Marshall University. Hechler, a long-time civil rights activist, was the keynote speaker for the luncheon.
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Ken Hechler thumbs through a book while wearing a shirt depicting the Chicago Tribune's erroneous headline trumpeting President Harry Truman's "defeat" to Thomas Dewey in the 1948 election.
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West Virginia Secretary of State Ken Hechler takes time in December 2007 to give a tour he seems to know well as he points out photographs from around the state to visitors Josh Edgell and Vickie Engdahl at his office in the State Capital.
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West Virginia Secretary of State Ken Hechler takes time in December 2000 to give a tour he seems to know well as he points out photographs from around the state to visitors Josh Edgell and Vickie Engdahl Friday at his office in the State Capital.
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Secretary of State and environmental activist Ken Hechler waves the Federal Court ruling limiting "valley fills" in front of the Princess Beverly mine in Kayford, W.Va., Thursday, Oct. 28, 1999. Hechler takes exception to opponents of the ruling and a proposed congressional legislative "rider" that would circumvent the ruling. (AP Photo/Bob Bird)
Secretary of State Ken Hechler, right, gestures while discussing campaign points as laid-off Dal Tex coal miner John Hardin, left, looks on at the United Mine Workers Labor Day Picnic in Racine, W.Va., Monday, Sept. 6, 1999. The UMW Labor Day celebration is a magnet for politicians every year, but this year's observance drew a bumper crop of campaigners with their eyes on the 2000 primary election. Hechler is giving up his post to run for the Democratic nomination for the 2nd Congressional District. (AP Photo/Bob Bird)
West Virginia Secretary of State Ken Heckler is shown with one of the stuffed black bears that grace his office in Charleston, W.Va., on Wednesday, May 6, 1998. The sign on the bear is a dig at the state's active gun lobby. At 83, Heckler has outlived most of his enemies and many of his friends. He still plays a furious game of tennis. His mind is sharp, his humor intact. Wry, witty and solicitous, Hechler wheedles against the well-heeled. (AP Photo/Bob Bird)
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Ken Hechler speaks with a woman in a Wayne County garden.
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Ken Hechler speaks with a train engineer during Hechler’s 1958 congressional campaign.
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Rep. Ken Hechler helps bag trash. Congress’ vacation amid serious issues propelled his 1970s effort to walk in the shoes of constituents.
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Ken Hechler files a report as a World War II combat historian.
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Ken Hechler and former President Harry Truman at an airport.
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Three people who posed with then-Sen. John F. Kennedy at Jim's Steak and Spaghetti House in the Spring of 1960 re-enact the noted portrait. From left, are Phyllis Elkins, who has been a waitress at Jim's for 56 years, David Fox Jr., who was the Democrats' Cabell County chairman, and Ken Hechler, who was running for his second term as a U.S. congressman from West Virginia.
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John F. Kennedy at Jim's Steak and Spaghetti, 1960. Note on back identifies "Our Phyllis, JFK, David Fox and Ken Hechler." Original photo by Maurice Kaplan, The Herald-Dispatch.
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West Virginia Secretary of State Ken Hechler takes some time to talk with visitors in December 2000 at his office in the State Capital. Hechler has been in public office since 1958.
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West Virginia Secretary of State Ken Hechler takes some time to talk with visitors in December 2000 at his office in the State Capital. Hechler has been in public office since 1958.
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West Virginia Secretary of State Ken Hechler sorts through papers and old photographs as he packs boxes in December 2000 at his office in the State Capital. Hechler has been in public office since 1958.
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Former Secretary of State Ken Hechler demonstrates during Gov. Bob Wise's inauguration at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va., Monday, Jan. 15, 2001. Hechler made good on his promise to picket the noon inaugural ceremony. Hechler and about 40 pickets gathered nearby to protest Wise's decision to name Logan County Commissioner Art Kirkendoll to a $53,000-a-year job as southern West Virginia constituency coordinator. (AP Photo/Bob Bird)
85-year-old West Virginia Secretary of State and 2nd District Democratic congressional candidate Ken Hechler, left, is shown with campaign reform activist Dorris "Granny D" Haddock at the state capitol in Charleston, W.Va., Saturday, May 6, 2000. West Virginia's primary election is Tuesday, May 9, 2000. (AP Photo/Bob Bird)
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West Virginia Secretary of State Ken Hechler sang, talked and read a story to children at Barnett Child Care Center in June 1998 as part of Juneteenth Festival a Celebration of Family.
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West Virginia Secretary of State Ken Hechler works from his desk in the state capitol in Charleston, W.Va., on May 6, 1998. A complete political creature, Hechler lives to work for others. Rarely a day goes by that he is not in his office. He handles a huge volume of mail and phone calls personally, hunched behind an apparently never-decreasing pile of papers that cover his tiny desk. (AP Photo/Bob Bird)
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