As the Charleston Gazette-Mail reports:

Ken Hechler, whose life spanned more than a full century and whose political career lasted more than six decades, stretching from the White House to Congress to the West Virginia secretary of state’s office, died Saturday, according to friends. He was 102 years old. . . .

In addition to his political career, Hechler was a soldier, author, teacher and activist. He shook Theodore Roosevelt’s hand as a boy, questioned Nazi leaders after World War II, advised President Harry S. Truman, and wrote a book about his grandfather’s service in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was the oldest living former member of Congress in the nation.

See also WV Public Broadcasting and the Washington Post.