WHEELING — The next step in the federal courthouse in Wheeling being named for Judge Frederick Stamp Jr. is complete.
The United States Senate this week passed by unanimous consent a resolution that would rename the courthouse the “Frederick P. Stamp, Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse.” The resolution now will go to the desk of President Joe Biden for him to sign.
The resolution originated in the U.S. House of Representatives and was sponsored by Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va, a Wheeling resident himself. It was supported in the Senate by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. McKinley’s office said Friday it was not yet known when the resolution would reach Biden’s desk.
During remarks on the House floor last month, McKinley said the honor was fitting for someone who has meant so much to the region’s legal community.
“Humble to the extreme. Humble by nature, it is a testament to his character that Judge Stamp would never personally seek this type of recognition,” McKinley said. “But he has earned it and his peers would like to see that recognition for him.”
A lifelong Wheeling resident, Stamp was a member of the 2017 Class of the Wheeling Hall of Fame.
After active military service in the United States Army, Stamp spent 30 years practicing as an attorney in the city. In 1990, President George H.W. Bush appointed him to the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of West Virginia.
He has been President of the West Virginia Bar Association, a Fellow of the American Bar Association, Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and member and president of the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia.
Stamp also has been a member of the West Virginia Board of Regents from 1970-77 and served as chair in 1973-74. He also sat on and chaired the West Virginia Commission on Higher Education and was on the boards of trustees at Wheeling Jesuit University, Davis & Elkins College and The Linsly School.