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Jesse Johnson Finley (18 November 1812 – 6 November 1904) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-FL 2) from 19 April 1876 to 3 March 1877 (succeeding Josiah T. Walls and preceding Horatio Bisbee Jr.), from 20 February to 3 March 1879 (succeeding Bisbee and preceding Noble A. Hull), and from 4 March 1881 to 1 June 1882 (interrupting Bisbee's terms).

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Jesse Johnson Finley was born in Lebanon, Tennessee in 1812, and he served as a US Army captain in the Second Seminole War, became a lawyer in Mississippi County, Arkansas in 1840, became a State Senator in 1841, moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1842, became Mayor of Memphis in 1845, moved to Marianna, Florida in 1846 and served in the State Senate in 1850, served as a Whig presidential elector in 1852, served as a circuit court judge from 1853 to 1861, served as a Confederate States Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War (during which he fought at the Battle of Chickamauga, the Battle of Missionary Ridge, the Atlanta Campaign - during which he was wounded at the Battle of Resaca - and at the Battle of Jonesborough, where his horse was killed), and served in the US House of Representatives from 1876 to 1877, in 1879, and from 1881 to 1882. He died in 1904.

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