Background
Finney, Darwin Abel was born on August 11, 1814 in Shrewsbury, Vermont, United States.
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Finney, Darwin Abel was born on August 11, 1814 in Shrewsbury, Vermont, United States.
He attended the public schools and was graduated from the military academy at Rutland, Vermont.
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.
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, District of Columbia
He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1856 to 1861.