Larry Victor Faircloth (July 23, 1948 – December 18, 2023) was an American politician from the state of West Virginia.
[1] He graduated from Musselman High School in Inwood, West Virginia, and James Rumsey Vocational-Technical Center.
[5] Faircloth ran in the 2011 special election to fill the remainder of Joe Manchin's term as Governor of West Virginia, losing the party nomination to Bill Maloney.
[6] In 2012, he opted not to run for reelection to the House of Delegates, and instead ran for West Virginia State Auditor, losing to incumbent Glen Gainer III.
Faircloth had initially planned to run for the United States House of Representatives in West Virginia's 2nd congressional district in the 2014 elections but opted to run for the West Virginia Senate against senate majority leader John Unger.