Darwin Asahel Finney (August 11, 1814 – August 25, 1868) was aRepublican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania.

Darwin Asahel Finney was born inShrewsbury, Vermont. He attended the public schools and attended the military academy at Norwich, VT (then the ALS&MA, now Norwich University). He moved with his parents toMeadville, Pennsylvania. He served in a clerk in a law office inKingsbury, New York, in 1834 and 1835. He graduated fromAllegheny College in Meadville in 1840. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced practice in Meadville.

He was a member of thePennsylvania State Senate from 1856 to 1861.

Finnery was elected as a Republican to theFortieth Congress and served until his death atBrussels, Belgium, in 1868. Interment inGreendale Cemetery inMeadville, Pennsylvania.Cenotaph atCongressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

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