Roswell Farnham

Roswell Farnham ( born July 23, 1827 in Boston, Massachusetts, † January 5, 1903 in Bradford, Vermont ) was an American politician and 1880-1882 Governor of the State of Vermont.

Early years

In 1840 Farnham came with his father to Bradford in Vermont. He attended until 1852, the University of Vermont. After that, he was for a time worked as a teacher. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer Roswell Farnham started in his new profession to work as a partner in a law firm. From 1859 to 1862 he was a prosecutor. During the Civil War he went, until he retired from the military in 1863, from lieutenant to lieutenant colonel on. He served in a regiment, which consisted of volunteers from Vermont. After 1863 he again worked as a lawyer.

Political rise

Roswell Farnham was a member of the dominant Republican Party in Vermont, whose board he served in Vermont from 1865 to 1868. From 1869 to 1870 he was a member of the State Senate. He then spent three years as a member of the Education Committee of his state. In 1876 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at the Rutherford B. Hayes was nominated as presidential candidate of the party. Farnham was also one of the electors in the presidential election this year. In 1880, he was overwhelmingly elected as the new governor.

Governor of Vermont and other CV

Farnham joined his two-year term on 7 October 1880. As governor, he pushed for a reform of the education and prison system. He also tried to lever companies from other areas of the United States to invest in Vermont. After the expiration of his term of office on October 5, 1882 Farnham again worked as a lawyer and devoted himself to his private affairs. He had political office after 1882 no longer held. Since 1849 Roswell Farnham was married to Mary Elizabeth Johnson, with whom he had three children. Governor Farnham died in January 1903.