Stephen Fincher

Stephen Fincher

Stephen Lee Fincher (born February 7, 1973 in Memphis , Tennessee ) is an American politician . From January 3, 2011 to January 3, 2017, he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives . Since he announced on February 1, 2016 that he no longer wanted to run for office in 2016, he resigned from this body on January 3, 2017.

Career

Stephen Fincher attended Crockett County High School in the Alamo until 1990 . In the following years he was one of the managers of the family farm, on which cotton, wheat, soybeans and corn are grown, among other things. At the same time he was active in the Republican Party as a politician.

In the 2010 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded John S. Tanner of the Democratic Party on January 3, 2011 , who no longer had eleven legislative terms had run. Fincher's election victory in November 2010 was in the federal trend at the time in favor of his party. Since he was re-elected in all subsequent elections, he was able to exercise his mandate until January 3, 2017. Due to his renouncement of a further candidacy, the legislative term in Congress ending that day was his last. Fincher was considered a more conservative MP. This applied not only to his position on tax and financial issues, but also, among other things, in the area of ​​private gun ownership, which he advocates. He is against abortion and against same-sex marriages.

Stephen Fincher has three children with his wife, Lynn. The family lives near Halls .

Web links

• Web presence at the congress
• Stephen Fincher in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)