Guy Otto Farmer
A.B., West Virginia University, 1934, L.L.B., 1936University of Oxford, 1936-37
Born in Foster Falls, Virginia, Guy Farmer received a Rhodes Scholarship in 1936.
At West Virginia University, he was a member of the freshman debating team and held the rank of captain in R.O.T.C. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was a member of Phi Alpha Delta and Delta Nu Tau and of the Rowan Rifles. He was president of the student body of the College of Law. He studied at Brasenose College, Oxford.
Farmer became a senior partner in the firm of Farmer, Shibley, McGuinn and Flood and in 1974 represented the coal industry in contract negotiations with the United Mine Workers of America. Although his professional practice was primarily centered in Washington, D.C., he returned to Morgantown to teach labor law at the WVU College of Law during the 1948-49 academic year.