district state_senate succeeded predecessor successor birth_place party article_title office preceded state_house birth_date term_start state term_end name
7th 19th ohio bob schuler dale n. van vyven stanley aronoff doug white cincinnati , ohio republican richard finan
 90th president of the ohio senate michael maloney dale schmidt ohio 16 august 1934 january 3 , 1973 3 , 1997 september 14 , 1978 january ohio ohio december 16 , 1978 31 , 2002 december 31 , 2002 september richard h. finan
richard finan

richard h. finan -lrb- born august 16 , 1934 -rrb- is a republican politician who formerly served in the ohio general assembly .
an attorney , finan was initially elected to the ohio house of representatives in 1972 , representing a suburban cincinnati district .
he was easily reelected in 1974 and 1976 .
in 1978 , senator michael maloney left the ohio senate to become hamilton county administrator .
as a result , his senate seat became open , and finan was appointed by senate republicans to succeed him .
he ran for election to a full term that november , and won .
he was reelected in 1982 , and went on to serve as chairman of the senate ways and means committee .
he was reelected again in 1986 .
in 1990 , finan was thought to be aiming for a run for ohio governor .
however , he remained in the senate and won a fifth term in the fall election of that year .
by this time , he was serving as president pro tempore of the senate .
when senate president stanley aronoff decided not to seek reelection in 1996 , finan was nominated to replace him .
with term limits now in effect in ohio , finan was only eligible for one final term , and won in 1998 .
after twenty four years in office , finan left the senate in 2002 .
since leaving the senate , finan has returned to private practice and lobbying .
