Homer Adams Holt, 20^th Governor of West Virginia, was born March 1, 1898, at Lewisburg, Greenbrier County.  He was the son of Robert Byrne and Emma McWhorter Holt.  He married Isabel Wood March 22, 1924 and to that union were born two daughters, Julia and Isabel.  He was a Presbyterian.

Homer Holt graduated from Greenbrier Military School in 1915 and from Washington and Lee University with the degree of A.B. in 1918.  He was an honor law graduate of W. & L. and received the degree of LL.D. from West Virginia University in 1937.  He served as second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery during World War II.  He was professor of law at Washington and Lee 1923-25, and actively engaged in the practice of law at Fayetteville, 1925-33.

Holt was elected Attorney General at the general election in 1932.  He was elected Governor at the general election in 1936.  Governor Holt is the grandson of the late Judge Homer A. Holt, of Greenbrier, who served in 1890-96 as a member of the Supreme Court of Appeals.  Homer Holt died in Charleston January 16, 1975.