Roswell Farnham

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Roswell Farnham
38th Governor of Vermont
In office 1880 – 1882
Lieutenant(s)	John L. Barstow
Preceded by	Redfield Proctor
Succeeded by	John L. Barstow
Born	July 23, 1827 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	January 5, 1903 Bradford, Vermont
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Mary Elizabeth Johnson

Roswell Farnham (July 23, 1827 – January 5, 1903) was a U.S. politician of the Republican Party.

He came to Vermont with his father 1840, setting at Bradford; entered the junior class University of Vermont; graduate, 1849, degree of A. M. 1852. In 1849 married Mary Elizabeth Johnson of Bradford. Taught school at Dunham, Lower Canada; was principal of Franklin Academical Institution, Franklin, Vermont; later taught at the Bradford Academy; admitted to the Orange County Bar 1857; formed partnership with Robert McK. Ormsby; began practicing independently 1859; elected states attorney 1859, and twice re-elected. Second lieutenant Bradford Guards in the 1st Regiment Vermont Volunteers; captain and lieutenant-colonel 12th Regiment Vermont Volunteers, and for nearly half the term of his service in command of the regiment. After the war resumed practice of law at Bradford; Republican candidate for representative in the Legislature, but was defeated; state senator from Orange County 1868 and 1869; delegate to the Republican national convention and presidential elector 1876; elected governor of the state in 1880 by a majority of over 25,000.

[edit] References

• Prentiss C. Dodge, compiler, "Encyclopedia Vermont Biography," Ullery Publishing Company, Burlington, Vermont, 1912, p. 45.

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