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Stanley Finch

First director of the FBI, from 1908 to 1912

Field	Value
name	Stanley Finch
image	Stanley Wellington Finch, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left.jpg
office	1st Chief of the Bureau of Investigation
president	Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
term_start	July 26, 1908
term_end	April 30, 1912
predecessor	Position established
successor	A. Bruce Bielaski
birth_date
birth_place	Monticello, New York, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Washington, D.C., U.S.
education	George Washington University (LLB, LLM)

William Howard Taft Stanley Wellington Finch (July 20, 1872 – 22 November 1951) was the first director of the Bureau of Investigation (1908–1912), which would eventually become the FBI.

Life

Finch was born in Monticello, New York, in 1872. He became a clerk in the United States Department of Justice, where he worked off and on for almost 40 years. Finch rose from the position of clerk to that of chief examiner between 1893 and 1908. While working in the Justice Department, Finch earned his LL.B degree (1908), followed by an LL.M degree (1909) from what is now The George Washington University Law School. He was admitted to the Washington, DC bar in 1911.

Previously, when the Justice Department needed to investigate a crime, it would borrow Secret Service personnel from the Treasury Department. As chief examiner, Finch advocated setting up a squad of detectives within the Justice Department.

Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte created a Special Agent force and gave oversight of the force, later named the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), to Finch. Thus, he created what would become the FBI.

From 1913 to the 1930s, Finch alternated between private employment—primarily in the novelty manufacturing business—and positions in the Justice Department. He finally retired from the Justice Department in 1940.

References

"Stanley W. Finch, July 26, 1908 - April 30, 1912".

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