Finis McLean

Finis Ewing McLean ( born February 19, 1806 Russellville, Kentucky, † April 12, 1881 in Greencastle, Indiana) was an American politician who represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Finis Ewing McLean, son of Fergus McLean and Sophia Blackford was born on 1806 in Russellville. After he had attended the local schools there, he went to the Lebanon Academy in Logan County. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1827 and opened an office in Elkton. He worked at the time also with agriculture.

McLean decided to go over the following years into the policy, so that he was in 1837 elected to the House of Representatives from Kentucky. He was also elected as a member of the Whigs in the 31st Congress of the United States, where he remained on 4 March 1849 to 3 March 1851. After his term in Congress, he resumed his work as a lawyer in his office again, and agriculture.

In 1860, he moved to the Andrew County, Missouri, and farmed there until 1865 a farm. Then he went to Greencastle (Indiana), where he died on 12 April 1881. He was buried at Forest Hill Cemetery.

Family

Finis McLean had two brothers, John and William McLean, who were also active in politics. His older brother, John, was a deputy in the Congress of the United States, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Postmaster General of the United States. His other brother William was a member of Ohio in Congress. John's son Nathaniel McLean was a Union general during the Civil War. Furthermore, Finis McLean was the uncle of James D. Walker, who was 1879-1885 U.S. Senator for the state of Arkansas.