Darwin Asahel Finney was born in Shrewsbury, Vermont.
He served in a clerk in a law office in Kingsbury, New York, in 1834 and 1835.
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.
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