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WASHINGTON (WJHL) — A top mining union official from Bristol will accompany U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine at the president’s State of the Union address next Tuesday.
The senator invited James Gibbs, an at-large international vice president of the United Mine Workers of America who lives in Bristol, Virginia.
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Gibbs is a third-generation coal miner from Dickenson County who has worked as an electrician underground and as a lineman at surface mines, according to Kaine’s office.
President Joe Biden is set to deliver the State of the Union at 9 p.m. Tuesday.