Joseph E. Finerty
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Joseph E. Finerty
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Joseph Edward Finerty was an American politician. He was the Democratic mayor of Gary, Indiana from 1943 to 1948. He was Gary's first Irish Catholic mayor. He defeated the Republican incumbent Ernst Schaible, the last Republican to hold the office, with 58% of the vote. Finerty's election was the first Gary election in which a majority of voters in the all-black Midtown neighborhood voted for the Democratic rather than the Republican party. In 1945, Finerty became enmeshed in a bitter controvers
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American politician
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