Thomas Knight Finletter was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman.
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12 Facts About Thomas Finletter
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Thomas Finletter was the grandson of Thomas K Finletter, for whom the Thomas K Finletter School in Philadelphia is named.
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Thomas Finletter took his early education at The Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with both Bachelor of Arts degree in 1915 and bachelor of laws in 1920.
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Thomas Finletter served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
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Thomas Finletter was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1920 and the New York Bar in 1921.
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Thomas Finletter resigned his post in 1944, when the functions of OFEC were absorbed by the newly created Foreign Economic Administration.
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In 1945, Thomas Finletter acted as consultant at the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco.
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Thomas Finletter returned back to public service July 18,1947, when President Harry S Truman established a temporary, five-man commission that inquired into all phases of aviation and drafted the national air policy report.
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Thomas Finletter was chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration's mission to the United Kingdom with headquarters in London, to which he had been appointed early in 1949.
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Thomas Finletter won the support of some liberal reformers, prominently including Eleanor Roosevelt, and was chosen as the Liberal Party's candidate, though the Democratic Convention preferred Frank Hogan.
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Thomas Finletter served in that office until 1965 when he was replaced by Harlan Cleveland.
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