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American government official and banking and investments executive From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Cecil Finucane (September 6, 1905 – November 7, 1983)[1] was an American government official, and banking and investments executive.
Charles C. Finucane | |
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United States Under Secretary of the Army | |
In office February 1955 – April 1958 | |
President | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Preceded by | John Slezak |
Succeeded by | Hugh M. Milton II |
Personal details | |
Born | Spokane, Washington, U.S. | September 6, 1905
Died | November 7, 1983 78) | (aged
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Years of service | 1932–1948 |
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Unit | United States Naval Reserves |
Finucane was born in Spokane, Washington and attended the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut. He received an engineering degree in 1928 from Sheffield School, Yale University.
He served as vice-president and then president of Sweeny Investment Company while also serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. From 1936-1938 he was vice-president of the Sunshine Consolidated Mining Co., and majority floor leader of the Washington State Legislature in 1939. In 1946 he served as director for both the Spokane and Eastern Division of the Seattle First National Bank and the James Smyth Plumbing and Heating Company of Spokane.[2]
He was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management in 1954, the Under Secretary of the Army in 1955, and then the Assistant Secretary of Defense in 1958.[3]
Finucane owned a summer home in Hayden, ID.
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