Arthur Inghram Boreman (24 July 1823-19 April 1896) was the Republican Governor of West Virginia from 20 July 1863 to 26 February 1869 (succeeding Francis Harrison Pierpont and preceding Daniel D.T. Farnsworth) and a US Senator from 4 March 1869 to 3 March 1875 (succeeding Peter G. Van Winkle and preceding Allen T. Caperton).
Biography[]
Arthur Inghram Boreman was born in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania in 1823, and he was raised in Middlebourne, Tyler County, Virginia (now West Virginia). He became a lawyer in 1845, and he served in the House of Delegates from 1855 to 1861 and as a Wood County circuit judge from 1861 to 1863. While he was not an abolitionist, he was a staunch Unionist and opposed Virginia's secession at the start of the American Civil War in 1861. Boreman went on to serve as Governor from 1863 to 1869 and in the US Senate from 1869 to 1875, and he died in 1896.