Ebenezer Byron Finley | |||
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Member of the United States House of Representatives | In office March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879 | ||
Preceded by | Jacob P. Cowan | ||
Succeeded by | Gibson Atherton | ||
Member of the United States House of Representatives | In office March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1881 | ||
Preceded by | J. Warren Keifer | ||
Succeeded by | J. Warren Keifer | ||
Personal details | |||
Born | Orrville, Ohio | July 31, 1833||
Died | August 22, 1916 Bucyrus, Ohio | (aged 83)||
Resting place | Oakwood Cemetery | ||
Political party | Democratic | ||
Spouse(s) | Charlotte E. Codding | ||
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Ebenezer Byron Finley (July 31, 1833 – August 22, 1916, age 83) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, nephew of Stephen Ross Harris.
Born in Orrville, Ohio, Finley attended the public schools. He studied law at Bucyrus, Ohio, from 1859 until the outbreak of the Civil War. He was active in recruiting Company K, Twenty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served as a first lieutenant. He resumed the study of law in 1862. He was admitted to the bar in 1862 and commenced practice in Bucyrus, Ohio.
Finley was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1881). He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures (Forty-sixth Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1880. He served as Adjutant General of Ohio in 1884. He served as circuit judge of the third circuit of Ohio. He resumed the practice of law in Bucyrus, Ohio, where he died August 22, 1916. He was interred in Oakwood Cemetery.
Finley married Charlotte E. Codding, February 15, 1858.[1]
References[]
- ↑ Randall, Emilius; Ryan, Daniel Joseph (1915). History of Ohio: the Rise and Progress of an American State. 6. New York: The Century History Company. pp. 581–583. https://books.google.com/books?id=oQ8WAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA581.
Sources[]
- Ebenezer B. Finley at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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