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Kanawha was a proposed name for the new state.Vandaliahad been another name of a previous attempt to separate from Virginia. 30 of 44 members of the Wheeling Convention preferred the name West Virginia.

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West Virginia got its name because it succeeded from Virginia and is west of Virginia hence West Virginia.

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