Matthew Mansfield Neely (November 9, 1874 – January 18, 1958) was an American Democratic politician from West Virginia.

[2] He entered the practice of law in Fairmont, West Virginia and was elected its mayor in 1908.

He died in 1958, several years before the home rule he had sponsored finally passed both houses of Congress.

In his honor, Fairmont State University sponsors an oratory contest in his name every year.

His grandson was Richard Neely, an author and politician who served as the chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.

[7] In 1937, along with senator Homer Bone and representative Warren Magnuson, Neely introduced the National Cancer Institute Act, which was signed into law by Franklin Roosevelt on August 5 of that year.

[8] The Neely Anti-Block Booking Act gradually broke the control of the movie theaters by the studios.