FINNEY, Ronald Tucker

1898 - 1961  (63 years)

• Name	FINNEY, Ronald Tucker
  Birth	18 Sep 1898	Woodson County, KS
  Gender	Male
  FindaGrave	FindAGrave Memorial 59672757
  _COLOR	11
  Death	1 Oct 1961	Saint Petersburg, FL
  	Cause: of acute bronchitis
  Person ID	I40801	Puffers
  Last Modified	10 Aug 2020

  
  

  Family	CARLSON, Selma May,   b. 21 Mar 1906, MI d. 14 Dec 1996, Arcadia, MI (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	16 May 1947	Chebalis, WA   [1]
  Family ID	F14399	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2024

  
  

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• Notes

  Mr. Finney was the primary instigator of the Kansas Bond Scandal in 1933. His operation generated nearly $1.35 million in bogus securities. This occurred during the Great Depression when nearly a third of the US population was unemployed or underemployed. The Bond Scandal impacted others such as Gov. Alf Landon and the Emporia Gazette newspaper editor William Allen White. Mr. Finney and several coconspirators were convicted and imprisoned at Lansing State Penitentiary. Altogether, there were four criminal convictions, two state officers were impeached, and six federal indictments were brought against seven defendants (including his father, a bank president, who committed suicide). He was sentenced to serve the state's second-longest prison sentence at the time, 31 to 635 years. However, his sentence was later commuted to 18 to 36 years, and he was released from prison on February 18, 1945, and moved to Southern California where his wife and children had moved. In November 1949, he applied for a full pardon. Gov. Carlson commuted his sentence to 24 years, and then granted him a citizen pardon in December 1949.

  
  

• Sources

  [S666] Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008.