Biennial report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia . s de-clared to have vacated his office by having joined the Confederacy. On the fourth Thursday of May, 1863, he was elected for the full termof four years, beginning January 1, 1864, and removed the seat of govern-ment from Wheeling to Alexandria before the State of West Virginiabegan its legal existence, on June 20, 1863. On the 25th day of May, 1865, he removed the seat of government ta|Richmond, and served till the ernd of his term, January 1, 1868, and heldover till the 16th day of April, 1868, when
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Biennial report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia . s de-clared to have vacated his office by having joined the Confederacy. On the fourth Thursday of May, 1863, he was elected for the full termof four years, beginning January 1, 1864, and removed the seat of govern-ment from Wheeling to Alexandria before the State of West Virginiabegan its legal existence, on June 20, 1863. On the 25th day of May, 1865, he removed the seat of government ta|Richmond, and served till the ernd of his term, January 1, 1868, and heldover till the 16th day of April, 1868, when Major General Schofield, incommand of the First Military District (Virginia), appointed Henry H.Wells Provisional Governor. In 1868 Governor Pierpont returned to his home at Fairmont, WestVirginia. He was elected to the House of Delegates in 1869, and later was ap-pointee1 Collector of Internal Revenue for West Virginia by PresidentGarfield. He never was Governor of West Virginia. He died at Pittsburg, at the home of his daughter, MJaroh 24, 1S99, was buried at Fairmont, West Virginia..