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Happy 154th Birthday, West Virginia! 1863 - West Virginia Becomes the 35th State. From the earliest days of settlement there were differences between Eastern has Western Virginia. Legislation often favored those in the East, who owned slave and land. The American Civil War brought these issues to a head. When the Virginia legislature voted to secede from the Union in 1861, delegates from western counties walked out and went on to form a pro-Union government based in Wheeling. As the Civil War tu