Francis H. Pierpont the “Father of West Virginia”
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Pierpont is buried with his wife Julia in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Fairmont, WV
Waymark Code: WM8GQ7
Location: West Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 03/31/2010
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Francis H. Pierpont, governor of the Restored Government of Virginia after the Civil War and the “Father of West Virginia.” He is buried with his wife, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont.
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Francis H. Pierpont was a lawyer, early coal industrialist, governor of the Restored government of Virginia during the American Civil War (1861–1865), governor of Virginia (1865–1868) during the first years of Reconstruction (1865–1877), and a state senator representing Marion County in West Virginia (1869–1870). Pierpont was an antislavery member of the Whig Party and delegate to the First and Second Wheeling Conventions in 1861, during which Unionist politicians in western Virginia resisted the state's vote to secede by establishing the Restored government of Virginia. The second convention unanimously elected him governor. Although never actually governor of West Virginia, he is still remembered as one of the state's founding fathers.
Source: http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Pierpont_Francis_H_1814-1899
Date of birth: 01/25/1814
Date of death: 03/24/1899
Area of notoriety: Politics
Marker Type: Horizontal Marker
Setting: Outdoor
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