JAMES A. FINCH
1944

James A. Finch, nineteenth prosecuting attorney, was born April 29, 1883 in Louisville, IL, and received his law degree in 1903 from Benton College of Law in St. Louis. From 1903 to 1905 he practiced in St. Louis, but moved to Fornfelt in 1905, to New Madrid in 1916 and finally to Cape in 1932. Although a highly respected lawyer with a keen interest in politics, he never ran for political office. He was appointed prosecuting attorney in 1944 to complete the term of his eldest son who had left for World War II. In 1912 he served briefly as Scott County Circuit Judge to fill a vacancy. He served as secretary of the Missouri Republican Committee, as Missouri manager for the presidential campaign of Frank O. Lowden in 1928, and in 1928 turned down the Republican party's offer to be their nominee for a U.S. Senate seat from Missouri. He served 12 years on the Board of Regents at SEMO. He died July 23, 1953.

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