Monongalia-Marion County WV Archives Biographies.....Pierpont, Francis H January 25, 1814 - 
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Author: Lyon Gardiner Tyler LL D

Pierpont, Francis H., born in Monongahela county, Virginia, January 25, 1814. He
graduated from Allegheny (Pennsylvania) College in 1839, then taught school in
Mississippi, studied law, returned home, and entered upon practice at Fairmont,
Marion county. He was a pronounced anti-slavery man, and at the Wheeling
convention in 1861, called to reorganize the state government, was unanimously
chosen governor, and held office under this election for a year; meanwhile he
was elected by the people of West Virginia to fill an unexpired term of two
years, and subsequently re-elected for the full four-year term. After the
division of Virginia into two separate states in 1863 he removed the state
archives to Alexandria, convened a so-called legislature, remained there two
years, and in 1864 called a convention which decreed the abolition of slavery.
May 29, 1865, he removed the seat of government to that city. On the expiration
of his term as governor, he resumed practice at Fairmont; in 1870 he was elected
to the West Virginia legislature; and served as collector of internal revenue
under President Garfield.



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Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, under the Editorial Supervision of Lyon
Gardiner Tyler LL D
President of William and Mary College, Williamsburg; Author of "Parties and
Patronage in the United States" "The Cradle of the Republic" "Williamsburg the
old Colonial Capital" "England in America" "The Life and Times of the Tylers"
etc.; Vice President of the Virginia Historical Society, Member of the Maryland
Historical Society, and various other societies.

Volume III

New York 
Lewis Historical Publishing Company 
1915



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