Editing Stanley Finch (section)

{{Short description|First director of the FBI, from 1908 to 1912}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name        = Stanley Finch
|image       = Stanley Wellington Finch, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left.jpg
|office      = 1st [[Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation|Chief of the Bureau of Investigation]]
|president   = [[Theodore Roosevelt]]<br>[[William Howard Taft]]
|term_start  = July 26, 1908
|term_end    = April 30, 1912
|predecessor = Position established
|successor   = [[A. Bruce Bielaski]]
|birth_date  = {{birth date|1872|7|20}}
|birth_place = [[Monticello, New York|Monticello]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S.
|death_date  = {{death date and age|1951|11|22|1872|7|20}}
|death_place = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
|education   = [[George Washington University]] ([[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]], [[Master of Laws|LLM]])
}}
'''Stanley Wellington Finch''' (July 20, 1872 – 22 November 1951) was the first director of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|Bureau of Investigation]] (1908–1912), which would eventually become the FBI.