Skaff served in the supermajority-Republican state House of Delegates for nearly 11 nonconsecutive years, representing Kanawha County.

“Doug Skaff should be remembered and will be remembered as a great champion of the state of West Virginia,” Sponaugle said. “He’s a generational leader for the state, and West Virginia is not going to ...

Skaff died in a car crash on Interstate 79 in Jane Lew on Tuesday afternoon. According to a news release from the West Virginia State Police, troopers responded to the scene at about 4 p.m. and ...

Remembering former West Virginia delegate Doug Skaff, Jr., who was killed in a car crash on I-79 in Lewis County on June 10, 2025.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Doug Skaff Jr., a West Virginia newspaper executive and former Democratic legislative leader, died Tuesday following an accident on Interstate 79. He was 48.

West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey has confirmed that former West Virginia lawmaker Doug Skaff Jr. has died. Skaff, 48, died in a car accident on I-79 in Jane Lew Tuesday afternoon.