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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—West VirginiaBOREMAN, Arthur Inghram
(1823—1896)
Senate Years of Service:
1869-1875
Party:
Republican
BOREMAN, Arthur Inghram, a Senator from West Virginia; born in Waynesburg, Pa., July 24, 1823; moved to Virginia with his parents, who settled in Middlebourne, Tyler County, in 1827, and in Moundsville, Marshall County, in 1840; attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in Parkersburg; member, Virginia house of delegates 1855-1861; presided over the convention of supporters of the Union of the northwestern counties of Virginia held at Wheeling, June 19, 1861, to form the new State of West Virginia; elected judge of the circuit court, nineteenth circuit of Virginia 1861-1863; the first Governor of West Virginia 1863-1869, when he resigned to accept the nomination as United States Senator; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1875; was not a candidate for reelection in 1874; chairman, Select Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities (Forty-second Congress), Committee on Territories (Forty-third Congress); resumed the practice of law in Parkersburg, W.Va.; elected judge of the circuit court for the fifth judicial circuit of West Virginia in 1888 and served until his death in Parkersburg, Wood County, W.Va., April 19, 1896; interment in the Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography
; Woodward, Isaiah A. “Arthur Ingrahram Boreman: A Biography.” West Virginia History
31 (July 1970): 206-69; 32 (October 1970): 10-48.
Effland, Anne Wallace. “Recent Additions to the Arthur I. Boreman Papers in the West Virginia and Regional History Collection.” West Virginia History
44 (Fall 1982): 54-61.
Woodward, Isaiah A. “Arthur Ingraham Boreman: A Biography.” West Virginia History
31 (July 1970): 206-69; 32 (October 1970): 10-48.
___, ed. “Arthur Ingraham Boreman in Fear of the Future of The New State.” West Virginia History
34 (July 1973): 382-88.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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