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Joshua Higginbotham took his grandmother to vote for the first time last fall. At 77, she'd never entered a polling place. This election was special for her, he said. That's because she was able to vote for her grandson.
Joshua Higginbotham, R-Putnam, is now West Virginia's youngest lawmaker. He is 20 years old. He believes he won because he spent months meeting with people and telling them about his beliefs.
"It's humbling knowing that such a large percentage of the people in my district had the faith in me, such a young person, knowing that it was a risk, Higginbotham said.
His interest in politics started in 2008 after Barack Obama was elected president. Higginbotham authored three books by the time he was 18, was a page in the U.S. Senate and led the state's DECA (a business organization for high school and college students) chapter his senior year of high school.
"It helped me prepare not...