David E. Finley (February 28, 1861 – January 26, 1917) was a

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from

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. He was born in Trenton,

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. He attended the public schools of

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, and Ebenezer,

and was graduated from the law department of South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at

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, in 1885. He was admitted to the bar in 1886 and commenced practice in

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. Finley was member of the

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1890–1891. He also served in the South Carolina Senate 1892–1896. He served as a trustee of the University of South Carolina 1890–1896. He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1899, until his death. Prior to dying, he had been reelected to the Sixty-fifth Congress. He died in

Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, making Charlotte the 16th-most populo ...

, on January 26, 1917, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, York, South Carolina. Finley's son, David E. Finley, Jr., a prominent cultural leader in the United States in the 20th century, served as the first director of the National Gallery of Art and the founding chairman of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

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David E. Finley, late a representative from South Carolina, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1917
{{DEFAULTSORT:Finely, David E. 1861 births 1917 deaths People from Phillips County, Arkansas Democratic Party South Carolina state senators Democratic Party members of the South Carolina House of Representatives Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina 19th-century American politicians

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