{{short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Lowe Finney | image = Lowe Finney.jpg | state_senate = Tennessee | district = 25th | term_start = 2006 | term_end = 2014 | preceded = Don McLeary | succeeded = Ed Jackson | party = Democratic | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|11|1}} | alma_mater = University of Tennessee, Martin,<br>St. Louis University School of Law | profession = Attorney | spouse = Tiffany }}
'''Lowe Finney''' (born November 1, 1975 in Dresden, Weakley County, Tennessee) is an American politician and a Democratic former member of the Tennessee Senate for the 25th district, which is composed of Madison, Gibson, and Carroll counties.<ref name="a">{{cite web|title=Tennessee Senate Member |url=http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/senate/members/s27.htm |accessdate=September 10, 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070427215133/http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/senate/members/s27.htm |archivedate=April 27, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Education and career== Lowe Finney graduated from the University of Tennessee at Martin, where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration; he obtained a JD at Saint Louis University School of Law. He taught as an instructor at Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee and as an instructor at Lambuth University in Jackson. He taught Civil Rights and Business Law and Ethics.<ref name="a"/>
===Tennessee Senate=== Lowe Finney was first elected to the state senate in 2006, having won against Republican incumbent Don McLeary by 456 votes.<ref>[http://www.jacksonsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061218/NEWS01/612180308/1002 "War on crime hit by politics".]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Pete Wickam. ''The Jackson Sun.'' , 2006.</ref> He served as the Secretary and Treasurer of the Senate Democratic Caucus and the Vice-Chair of the Senate State and Local Government Committee. Senator Finney was also a member of the Environment, Conservation, and Tourism; Government Operations; and Joint Lottery Oversight Committees.<ref name="a"/>
In 2010, Finney ran for re-election and, again, defeated McLeary in a close race. Of the just over 50,000 ballots cast, Finney won by only 1,211 votes.
On July 31, 2013, Finney announced in an email to supporters that he would not seek a third term in the State Senate.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/local-news/tennessee-sen-finney-will-not-seek-re-election | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731010101/http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/local%2Dnews/tennessee%2Dsen%2Dfinney%2Dwill%2Dnot%2Dseek%2Dre%2Delection| title=State Sen. Lowe Finney of Jackson won't run for a third term in 2014 | author=Locker, Richard | archivedate=July 31, 2013 | url-status=dead | accessdate=February 2, 2015}}</ref>
=== Mayor of Jackson Campaign === On August 6, 2014, Finney told ''The Jackson Sun'' that he would be running in the May 2015 Jackson, Tennessee mayoral election against incumbent Jerry Gist.<ref>{{cite web | author= Wheststone, Tyler | title=Lowe Finney to run for mayor of Jackson | url=http://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/politics/2014/08/06/lowe-finney-to-run-for-mayor-of-jackson/13694319/ | accessdate= February 2, 2015 }}</ref> Finney finished second in the balloting with 4,757 votes (40.92 percent of 11,733 votes cast).<ref>{{cite web |author1=Whetstone, Tyler |author2=Thomas, David | title=Still mayor: Gist beats Finney for third term | url=http://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/politics/elections/2015/05/05/gist-beats-finney-third-term/26965409/ | accessdate= May 20, 2015 }}</ref>
==Political views== Lowe Finney has suggested that Tennessee have a State Department of Aging with a Cabinet-level administrator to run it, in order to deal with the growing senior population that is expected to double within the next 15 years.<ref>{{cite web | author= Ruble, Drew | title= Editor's Letter: Age-Old Problems | url= http://www.businesstn.com/pub/4_9/features/8294-1.html | accessdate= September 10, 2007 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071010070340/http://www.businesstn.com/pub/4_9/features/8294-1.html | archive-date= October 10, 2007 | url-status= dead | df= mdy-all }}</ref>
==External links== {{Sister project links}} * [http://lowefinney.com/ Lowe Finney for Mayor of Jackson]
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