| Name |
Thomas Dunn Finney |
| Suffix |
Jr. |
| Birth |
20 Jun 1925 |
Idabel, McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States  [1, 2, 3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Census |
4 Apr 1930 |
Idabel, McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States [4] |
Address:
South Central Ave |
| Residence |
1 Apr 1935 |
McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States [5] |
|
| Census |
8 May 1940 |
White Township, McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States [5] |
| Residence |
1960 |
Bethesda, Montgomery, Maryland, United States [6] |
Address:
5608 Brite Dr |
| _AMTID |
162485316851:1030:191555462 |
| _UID |
44841F238E334BA38AEEAFD06D5B3C9E52CE |
| Burial |
1978 |
Washinton, District of Columbia, United States |
Address:
Washington National Cathedral |
| Death |
6 Feb 1978 |
Bethesda, Montgomery, Maryland, United States [1, 2, 3] |
- Thomas D. Finney Jr., 52, a Washington lawyer who had been associated with a number of top political figures, died Monday at his home in Bethesda.
He suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
He was a member of the prestigious law firm of Clifford, Glass, McIlwain and Finney, which he had joined in 1963. He had not practiced law actively, however, for the last eight months.
Mr. Finney came to Washington in 1957 as administrative assistant to Sen. A.S. Mike Monroney (D-Okia.), remaining in that position until 1963.
He built a reputation as a politician and legislative strategists, and during this period was a major author of the Federal Aviation Act.
In 1960, Mr. Finney worked with Adlai E. Stevenson and organized the remarkable gallery demonstration for Stevenson at the Democratic convention that year.Later, the victor, President John F. Kennedy, borrowed Mr. Finney to work on the Trade Expansion Act, which Mr. Kennedy considered one of his most outstanding achievements. Mr. Finney advised the president as a member of his Task Force on Foreign Policy, as deputy special assistant to the president for Foreign Trade Policy and as director of congressional liaison for the Trade Expansion Act.
In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Mr. Finney to go to Mississippi with Allen Dulles when disorders develop there involving the registration of black voters.
Mr. Finney recommended the FBI agents be sent to the rural counties of Mississippi to monitor the registration. That same year he was special counsel to the credentials committee at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City.
Mr. Finney was credited with being among the key figures who helped solve the politically explosive dispute over which a delegation from Mississippi would be recognized.
In 1968, Mr. Finney took a leave of absence from his law firm to work in the presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy. He was considered to have the most political expertise in the organization.
Mr. Finney directed McCarthy's primary victory over Robert Kennedy in Oregon, visited the Kennedy family when Robert Kennedy was assassinated and remained the McCarthy liaison with Kennedy's followers.
Born in Idabel, Okla., Mr. Finney served as a Navy officer toward the end of World War II and then earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Oklahoma where he received a law degree in 1948.
He practised in Idabel for three years with his father, the late Thomas D. Finney, a pioneer trial lawyer. He then served with the Central Intelligence Agency in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 1952 to 1955.
Before joining Sen. Monroney in Washington, Mr. Finney was in private law practise in Oklahoma City.
He was a director of Continental Airlines and general counsel to the Proprietary Association. He was a trustee of the Citizens' Research Foundation.
Mr. Finney was a member of the American, Oklahoma, D.C. and Federal Bar associations, the American Judicature Society, Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, the National Lawyers Club and the Federal City Club.
He is survived by his wife, Sally Van Horn Finney, daughters, Susan Ford of Oklahoma City, and the Rev. Kathleen Finney, of Roanoke.; Va.; his mother, Bettie Higgs Finney, of Idabel, and two grandchildren.
The family suggests that expressions of sympathy be in the form of contributions to the Washington Hospice Society or the Thomas D. Finney Memorial Fund at Washington Cathedral.
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| Person ID |
I2921 |
Scott Dickson |
| Last Modified |
15 Mar 2022 |
| Father |
Thomas Dunn Finney, b. 21 Feb 1899, Lawrenceburg, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States d. 14 Jun 1968, Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States (Age 69 years) |
| Mother |
Bettie Higgs, b. 24 Nov 1903, De Queen, Sevier, Arkansas, United States d. 25 May 2000, Edmond, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States (Age 96 years) |
| Marriage |
15 Mar 1924 |
Idabel, McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States [7] |
- For some reason, the marriage record calls Aunt Bettie Bettie Jane. No one can ever recall her having any sort of middle name. None of her sisters had middle names.
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| Family ID |
F260 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
1925 - 1978 (52 years)
