Nathan A. Farwell

Nathan Allen Farwell ( born February 24, 1812 in Unity, Waldo County, Maine, † December 9, 1893 in Rockland, Maine ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Maine in the U.S. Senate.

After his education was Nathan Farwell 1832-1833 first self as a teacher. In 1834 he moved to East Thomaston and worked there in the lime quarries and shipbuilding. Later, he was then employed as a seaman and trade. He then studied law and settled in Rockland, where he founded the Marine Insurance Company. He became president of that insurance undertaking and also worked as a lawyer. Between 1845 and 1847 he traveled through Europe.

From 1854 to 1854 Farwell held as a member of the Senate of Maine his first political mandate; another term in this Parliament chamber followed from 1861 to 1862. 1860 he sat for the first time in the House of Representatives from Maine, from 1863 to 1864 again. In 1864 he also participated as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Baltimore. On October 27, 1864 Farwell was finally appointed U.S. Senator; he followed the the U.S. Treasury appointed William P. Fessenden, whose remaining until March 3, 1865 term of office he finished. Since Fessenden left the federal cabinet to get back to be Senator, Farwell did not occur to the renewed bid.

Subsequently, he worked again in the insurance industry and was politically only in 1866 as a delegate to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia active. Farwell, his cousin Owen Lovejoy sat for Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives, died in 1893.