Darwin Abel Finney

Darwin Asahel Finney (August 11, 1814 – August 25, 1868) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Early life

Darwin Asahel Finney was born in Shrewsbury, Vermont. He attended the public schools and attended the military academy at Norwich, Vermont (then the ALS&MA, now Norwich University). He moved with his parents to Meadville, Pennsylvania. He served in a clerk in a law office in Kingsbury, New York, in 1834 and 1835. He graduated from Allegheny College in Meadville in 1840. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced practice in Meadville.

Public service

He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1856 to 1861.

Finnery was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress and served until his death at Brussels, Belgium, in 1868. Interment in Greendale Cemetery in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.