Darwin Abel Finney

Darwin Abel Finney ( born August 11, 1814 Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont; † August 25, 1868 in Brussels ) was an American politician. During 1867 and 1868 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Darwin Finney attended the public schools of his home and then the Military Academy in Rutland. He later moved with his parents to Meadville, Pennsylvania. In the years 1834 and 1835, he worked as a clerk in a law firm in Kingsbury, New York. He then continued his studies until 1840 at Allegheny College in Meadville on. After studying law and his 1842 was admitted to the bar he began in Meadville to work in this profession. Later he hit as a member of the Republican Party also a political career. Between 1856 and 1861 he was a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1866, Finney was in the 20th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Vernon Culver on March 4, 1867. This mandate he was able to exercise until his death on 25 August 1868. In 1868 he had set out for health reasons to take a trip to Europe, during which he died in Belgium's capital Brussels. His time in Congress was burdened by the bickering between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson.