John Morton-Finney, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American activist and lawyer
Date of Birth: 25-Jun-1889
Date of Death: 28-Jan-1998
Profession: lawyer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About John Morton-Finney
- John Morton-Finney (June 25, 1889 – January 28, 1998) was an American civil rights activist, lawyer, and educator who earned eleven academic degrees, including five law degrees.
- He spent most of his career as an educator and lawyer after serving from 1911 to 1914 in the U.S.
- Army as a member of the 24th Infantry Regiment, better known as the Buffalo soldiers, and with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I.
- Morton-Finney taught languages at Fisk University in Tennessee and at Lincoln University in Missouri, before moving to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he taught in the Indianapolis Public Schools for forty-seven years.
- Morton-Finney was a member of the original faculty at Indianapolis's Crispus Attucks High School when it opened in 1927 and later became head of its foreign language department.
- He also taught at Shortridge High School and at other IPS schools.
- Morton-Finney was admitted as a member of the Bar of the Indiana Supreme Court in 1935, as a member of the Bar of the U.S.
- District Court in 1941, and was admitted to practice before the U.S.
- Supreme Court in 1972. When Morton-Finney retired from practicing law on June 25, 1996, at the age of 107, he was believed to have been the oldest practicing attorney in the United States.
- At the time of his death in 1998 he was Indiana's oldest veteran.
- Morton-Finney was honored with numerous honorary awards and certificates, including one from the Chief Justice of the U.S.
- Supreme Court in 1989, in addition to being commissioned a Kentucky Colonel (1991) from the Governor of Kentucky and named a recipient of a Sagamore of the Wabash award from the Governor of Indiana.
- He also received distinguished alumni and graduate awards from Indiana University and was inducted into the National Bar Association Hall of Fame (1991).
- In addition, the Indianapolis Bar Association and Butler University presentsx awards named in his honor.
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