a former Vanderbilt family functionary and friend of Grant, planned the removal of Pierpont and installation of Welles. Pierpont became one of the key figures in the Virginia constitutional convention of 1867–1868, which resulted in the Underwood Constitution of 1869. After this, Pierpont left Virginia politics and returned to his law practice in West Virginia. Pierpont subsequently was elected to one term in the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1870 but lost his seat when the Democrats took control of the state. His last public office was as a collector of Internal Revenue under President James Garfield. After his retirement, he helped create the West Virginia Historical Society, as well as served as President of the Methodist Protestant Church. Death and legacy He died at his daughter's home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on March 24, 1899. Three years later, his remains were relocated to Woodlawn Cemetery in Fairmont, West Virginia. They reside next to those of his wife Julia and three of their four children. A monument to Francis Pierpont was installed in Wheeling on West Virginia Day in 2015. See also Charles Henry Ambler – Premier Pierpont biographer and preeminent historian of West Virginia References Further reading Ambler, Charles H. Francis H. Pierpont: Union War Governor and Father of West Virginia (1937), the standard scholarly biography Downing, David C. A South Divided: Portraits of Dissent in the Confederacy. Nashville: Cumberland House, 2007. Hearne, Julian G. Some Unknown Facts of American History: The Saga of Governor Pierpont. McClain Printing Company, 1987. External links Francis H. Pierpont in Encyclopedia Virginia "A Guide to the Francis H. Pierpont Restored Government Executive Papers, 1861-1865", The Library of Virginia "A Guide to the Executive Papers of Governor Francis Harrison Pierpont, 1865-1868", The Library of Virginia "A Guide to the Executive letter book of Governor Francis H. Pierpont, 1861-1864.", The Library of Virginia West Virginia & Regional History Center, WVU Libraries's Pierpont, Francis Harrison (1814-1899), Papers 1811-1949 Klos, Stanley Y., The Father of West Virginia: A Perplexing Name Change. 1814 births 1899 deaths 19th-century American educators 19th-century American lawyers 19th-century American politicians 19th-century Methodists Allegheny College alumni American people of Welsh descent Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Fairmont, West Virginia) Delegates of the 1861 Wheeling Convention Republican Party governors of Virginia Internal Revenue Service people Lawyers from Morgantown, West Virginia Republican Party members of the West Virginia House of Delegates Methodists from West Virginia Morgan family