Daniel D. T. Farnsworth

Daniel Duane Tompkins Farnsworth ( born December 23, 1819 Staten Iceland, New York, † December 5, 1892 in Buckhannon, West Virginia ) was an American politician and in 1869, the second governor of the state of West Virginia.

Early years and political beginnings

From a young age came Farnsworth after Buckhannon, which at that time was still part of Virginia and should be part of West Virginia later. There he attended the local schools. He later worked in many jobs, including as a tailor and distributors as well as in the railroad and in the banking industry. In 1861 he was elected to the House of Representatives of Virginia. He took this mandate but not true and instead joined the independence movement of the western region of Virginia, from which later emerged the state of West Virginia.

Political career in West Virginia

At a meeting in Wheeling, West Virginia on the spin-off was decided that he was one of the committee which drafted the Statute of the new state. Subsequently, he was a deputy in the very first House of Representatives from West Virginia and then for seven years a member of the State Senate. In 1869 he was even president of this body. In this capacity, he fell on February 26 to the office of governor, because the incumbent Arthur I. Boreman was resigned to take a seat in the U.S. Senate. As Governor, he only had to finish the term of office of his predecessor until March 4, 1869. Thus he served exactly seven days, until the newly elected Governor William E. Stevenson was introduced in office.

In 1872, Farnsworth was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of West Virginia. Later he then retired from politics. He died in 1892 in his hometown of Buckhannon. Daniel Farnsworth was married twice and had a total of 13 children.