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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 5/3/1945
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
House: 37 (1917) - 38 (1919)
Home County: Ida
William Seth Finch
Ida County
W. S. FINCH Representative from Ida county. Was born February 14, 1858, on a farm in Whiteside county, Illinois. His education was acquired in the common and graded schools of that state. He came to Iowa in 1880, locating in Ida county when the country was new and was a pioneer in the early settlement of that county. He has been engaged in farming and stock raising ever since he came to Iowa and has lived on the farm, which is the site of his present country home, for the past thirty-five years. Was elected, to the legislature in 1916, and is a republican in politics.
House District 59
Committees
37th GA (1917)
Legislation Sponsored
37th GA (1917)