Charles Trump | |
State Senate: | West Virginia |
District: | 15th |
Alongside: | Craig Blair |
Term Start: | December 1, 2014 |
Predecessor: | Donald Cookman |
Office1: | Minority Leader of the West Virginia House of Delegates |
Term Start1: | January 13, 1999 |
Term End1: | December 1, 2006 |
Predecessor1: | Bob Ashley |
Successor1: | Tim Armstead |
State Delegate2: | West Virginia |
District2: | 51st |
Term Start2: | December 1, 1992 |
Term End2: | December 1, 2006 |
Predecessor2: | Constituency established |
Successor2: | Daryl Cowles |
Birth Name: | Charles Samuel Trump IV |
Birth Date: | 3 October 1960 |
Birth Place: | Winchester, Virginia, U.S. |
Party: | Republican |
Spouse: | Susan Keller Johnston |
Children: | 3 |
Education: | Princeton University (BA) West Virginia University (JD) |
Charles Samuel Trump IV (born October 3, 1960) is an American lawyer and Republican member of the West Virginia Senate. He represents the 15th district, which covers parts of the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. He is a justice-elect of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, having been elected for a 12 year term beginning on January 1, 2025 in the May 2024 non-partisan election.
Trump graduated with an A.B. in politics from Princeton University in 1982 after completing a 118-page long senior thesis titled "Realignment and Dealignment: Two Eras of Political Upheaval in West Virginia."[1] He then received a J.D. from West Virginia University College of Law.[2] Trump was elected recorder of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia in 1987. He served in the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 until 2006, serving as minority whip from 1994 until 1998 and minority leader from 1998 until 2006. Trump was a member of the Electoral College in 2000 for George W. Bush. He successfully ran for the Senate in 2014.[3]
Trump and his wife, Susan, have three children: Charles, Rebecca, and Michael.[3]