1st West Virginia legislature
The first state legislature of West Virginia convened in Wheeling from June 20, 1863, to December 11, 1863, after the adoption of the West Virginia Constitution which was drafted during the first two years of the Civil War.

Apportionment
+Legend District 1 
 District 2 
 District 3
 District 4 
 District 5 
 District 6
 District 7 
 District 8 
 District 9
 District 10 
 District 11 
 1 delegate
 2 delegates
 3 delegates
Thick black lines: State and district boundaries
Thin gray lines: County boundaries
Dashed black lines: Planned district and state boundaries
Dashed red lines: Counties with rotating member apportionment

The 1863 West Virginia Constitution established the creation of nine senatorial districts, each sending two senators to the state legislature. Additionally, the constitution called for the creation of two other senatorial districts containing counties in northern Virginia assuming they joined the state. For the House of Delegates, the constitution outlined six delegate districts each sending one or two delegates to the House, with another planned for counties in northern Virginia. Every other county was apportioned one to three delegates. The Senate member count was set to be between eighteen and twenty-two, and between forty-seven and fifty-two for the House of Delegates, depending on how many Virginian counties were absorbed into the state.

Members of the Senate
President of the West Virginia Senate: John M. Phelps from Mason County

District 1 (Hancock, Brooke, and Ohio)
John H. Atkinson
Chester D. Hubbard
District 2 (Marshall, Wetzel, and Marion)
James Burley
Aaron Hawkins
District 3 (Monongalia, Preston, and Taylor)
John J. Brown
Edward C. Bunker
District 4 (Pleasants, Tyler, Ritchie, Doddridge, and Harrison)
Daniel Haymond
Edwin Maxwell
District 5 (Wood, Jackson, Wirt, Roane, Calhoun, and Gilmer)
Edward S. Mahon
William E. Stevenson
District 6 (Barbour, Tucker, Lewis, Braxton, Upshur, and Randolph)
D. D. T. Farnsworth
William D. Rollyson
District 7 (Mason, Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, and Nicholas)
Greenbury Slack
District 8 (Cabell, Wayne, Boone, Logan, Wyoming, Mercer, and McDowell)
John B. Brown
William H. Copley
District 9 (Webster, Pocahontas, Fayette, Raleigh, Greenbrier, and Monroe)
Thomas K. McCann
Samuel Young
John M. Phelps
District 10 (Planned: Pendleton, Hardy, Hampshire, and Morgan)
Aaron Bechtol
James Carskadon
District 11 (Planned: Frederick, Berkeley, and Jefferson)

Members of the House of Delegates
Speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates: Spicer Patrick

Members by delegate districts

District 1 (Pleasants and Wood, 2 members)
Horatio N. Crooks (Wood)
Peter G. Van Winkle  (Wood)
District 2 (Calhoun and Gilmer)
William T. Wiant  (Gilmer)
District 3 (Clay and Nicholas)
Anthony Rader (Nicholas)
District 4 (Webster and Pocahontas)
Benton Griffin (Pocahontas)
District 5 (Tucker and Randolph)
Cyrus Kittle (Randolph)
District 6 (McDowell, Wyoming, and Raleigh)
W. S. Dunbar (Raleigh)
District 7 (Planned: Morgan and Berkeley, 2 members)
Joseph S. Wheat (Morgan)
Greenbrier and Monroe: (3 members, county delegate count in rotation)
John C. Gillilan (Greenbrier)
Andrew W. Mann (Greenbrier)
Lewis Ballard (Monroe)

Members by county

Barbour: Joseph Teter Jr.
Boone: Robert Hagar
Braxton: Felix Sutton
Brooke: H. W. Crothers
Cabell: Edward D. Wright
Doddridge: Ephraim Bee 
Frederick (Planned, 2 members)
Hampshire:
James I. Barrick 
George W. Sheetz
Hancock: William L. Crawford
Hardy: John Michael
Harrison:
Nathan Goff Sr.
Soloman S. Fleming 
Jackson: David J. Keeney
Jefferson (Planned, 2 members)
Kanawha:
Spicer Patrick
Lewis Ruffner
Lewis: Perry M. Hale
Logan: James H. Hinchman
Marion:
Isaac Holman
John S. Barnes
Marshall:
Michael Dunn
Joseph Turner
Mason: Lewis Bumgardner
Mercer: Thomas Little
Monongalia:
Leroy Kramer
John B. Lough
Ohio:
Daniel Lamb
Andrew F. Ross
W. W. Shriver
Pendleton: John Boggs 
Preston:
James C. McGrew
William B. Zinn
Putnam: George C. Bowyer 
Ritchie: S. R. Dawson
Roane: J. M. McWhorter
Taylor: L. E. Davidson
Tyler: Daniel Sweeny
Upshur: Jacob Teter
Wayne: Thomas Couley
Wetzel: S. I. Robinson
Wirt: Alfred Foster

Accomplishments
204 bills were passed by the legislature in its first term, including bills to admit Berkeley and Jefferson counties into the state.

See also
List of West Virginia state legislatures
Wheeling Convention

References

Category:Legal history of West Virginia
Category:West Virginia Legislature