Daniel Duane Tompkins Farnsworth (December 23, 1819 – December 5, 1892) was an American politician in the U.S. state of West Virginia, who served in the West Virginia Senate and briefly as the second governor of West Virginia from February to March 1869.
Biography Farnsworth was born in Staten Island, New York. When he was two his family moved to Buckhannon, West Virginia in Upshur County. He married Mary Ireland."West Virginia's First Ladies," West Virginia Division of Culture and History, June 2007. Farnsworth was the President of the West Virginia Senate in 1869 when Governor Arthur I. Boreman resigned his office to serve in the United States Senate. Farnsworth was Governor of West Virginia for seven days, from February 26, 1869 - March 4, 1869.
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