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Allen H. Loughry II is a Justice on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. He was previously best known for writing Don't Buy Another Vote, I Won't Pay for a Landslide.

Early life and education
Loughry was born in Elkins, West Virginia, and raised in Tucker County, West Virginia. He graduated from Tucker County High School in 1988 and went on to earn an undergraduate degree from the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University. Loughry earned a law degree from Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, where graduated he with the honor of Order of the Curia. He also hold an S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science) from The American University, Washington College of Law; an LL.M. (Masters of Laws in Criminology and Criminal Justice) from the University of London; and an LL.M.(Masters of Laws in Law and Government) from The American University, Washington College of Law. He studied law in England at the University of Oxford and received the program's top political science award. The director of the Washington College of Law Program on Law and Government, Professor Jamin Raskin, said, "Allen was a model student and exacting scholar, and he will make a brilliant judge of the highest integrity."

Career
From 2003 until his election to the Supreme Court, Loughry served as a law clerk for the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. He worked for several Justices, lastly for Justice Margaret Workman. While at the Supreme Court he also was an adjunct professor in the University of Charleston's political science department. He previously served as a senior assistant attorney general in the West Virginia Attorney General's Office for seven years, in both the appellate and administration divisions. While there he was appointed as a special prosecuting attorney on numerous occasions to handle criminal cases throughout West Virginia. He has argued a number of cases before the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia and has argued or filed legal pleadings in the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of West Virginia and the Southern District of Florida, among other legal forums. Loughry also served as a Special Assistant to U.S. Rep. Harley O. Staggers, Jr., and as a Direct Aide to West Virginia Governor Gaston Caperton. In 1997, he completed a legal externship at the Supreme Court of Ohio. He also served as a personal assistant to the Tucker County Prosecuting Attorney in 1988 and 1989. Additionally, he wrote for two newspapers (The Parsons Advocate and The Dominion Post of Morgantown) and was a freelance writer for The Associated Press. Loughry was the only candidate to participate in West Virginia's public financing pilot program, which was open only to Supreme Court candidates in the 2012 campaign.

Authorship
In 2006, Loughry published Don't Buy Another Vote, I Won't Pay for a Landslide: The Sordid and Continuing History of Political Corruption in West Virginia. The publication was the result of ten years of research that began as his doctoral thesis at American University. It covers corruption in West Virginia from 1861, before statehood, through 2006 and includes topics such as John F. Kennedy's 1960 Primary Election, the Hatfields and McCoys, Mother Jones, the Battle of Blair Mountain, gambling, sex scandals, and the author's road map to reform. Forewords were written by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and former Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV). It was the only foreword Sen. Byrd wrote for any book.