Biography

12/18/1889 - 11/25/1977

FINESTONE, Lewis Julian, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born,  December 18, 1889 in Kamenitz, Podol, Russia; graduated, Central High School, 1909; A.B., Haverford College; LL.B., University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1914; lawyer; assistant city solicitor, Philadelphia (1928-1933); special deputy attorney general, Pennsylvania State Department of Insurance (1937-1939); government appeal agent, Philadelphia Draft Board (1940-1977); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1941 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1942); law partner, Fischer, Finestone and Marston; died, November 25, 1977 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Roosevelt Memorial Park, Trevose, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.