Nathan A. Farwell

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 Party ) who represented the state of Maine in the US Senate .

After finishing school, Nathan Farwell worked as a teacher from 1832 to 1833. In 1834 he moved to East Thomaston and worked there in lime processing and shipbuilding. Later he was also employed as a seaman and in trade. He then studied law and settled in Rockland, where he founded the Marine Insurance Company . He became president of this insurance company and also worked as a lawyer. Between 1845 and 1847 he traveled through Europe.

From 1854 to 1854 Farwell held his first political mandate as a member of the Maine Senate ; another term in this House of Representatives followed from 1861 to 1862. In 1860 he sat for the first time in the House of Representatives from Maine , from 1863 to 1864 again. In 1864 he also took part as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Baltimore . On October 27, 1864, Farwell was finally appointed US Senator; he succeeded the US Treasury Secretary appointed William P. Fessenden , whose term of office, which ran until March 3, 1865, he ended. Since Fessenden left the federal cabinet to become Senator again, Farwell did not run for renewed candidacy.

As a result, he worked again in the insurance business and was only politically active in 1866 as a delegate to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia . Farwell, whose cousin Owen Lovejoy sat for Illinois in the US House of Representatives , died in 1893.

Web links

• Nathan A. Farwell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Nathan A. Farwell in database Find a Grave (English)