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Born in Tempe, Ariz., a little agricultural town south of Phoenix, Finch was introduced early to political life by his father, a cotton farmer and one of a handful of Republicans in the state legislature. Three bad harvests in a row forced a move across the state line, and in...
At 17, he joined the Marine Corps, which sent him to nearby Occidental under the officer-training V12 program. As the man of the family and rather awed by that responsibility, he dispensed spine-stiffening advice to his twelve-yearold sister, now Mrs. Kenneth Schechter. "You know, Sue," he wrote...
At Occidental, his wife Carol, two years his senior, remembers him as a strait-laced type who neither drank nor smoked?and once wrote a poem urging her to give up cigarettes. She did?only to see him succumb. Until he took his present job, where he feels he has...
Potter, a specialist in population ethics, has been assistant professor in the Divinity School and a member of the Harvard Center for Population Studies since 1965. He holds the B.A. in political science and philosophy from Occidental College, the B.D. from McCormick Theological Seminary, and the Th.D. in social ethics...
He had earned a political science degree from Occidental College and received a law degree from U.S.C. in 1951. Shortly thereafter, he entered and lost two congressional races. But between these beatings, Finch developed a lucrative law practice and a solid grounding in California politics. In 1956 he was named...