# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-e-finley-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:22:59.670Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-e-finley-jr"
name: "David E. Finley, Jr."
slug: "david-e-finley-jr"
description: "David Edward Finley Jr. was an American cultural leader during the middle third of the 20th century. He was the first director of the National Gallery of Art, the founding chairman of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, chairman of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, a prime mover in the founding of the National Portrait Gallery, and founding chairman of the White House Historical Association. During the Second World War, Finley led the Roberts Commission, which led the rescue of much of the threatened artworks of Europe."
tagline: "First director of the National Gallery of Art (1890-1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Finley%2C_Guntur%2C_and_Sukarno_at_National_Gallery_of_Art%2C_Presiden_Soekarno_di_Amerika_Serikat%2C_p17.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1890-09-13"
deathDate: "1977-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.08
  momentum:             1.758241758241758
  historical:           4.603852
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ديفيد إي. فينلي جونيور"
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    title: "ديفيد اى. فينلى جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Finley%2C_Jr."
    title: "David E. Finley, Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Finley_Jr."
    title: "David E. Finley Jr."
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  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Edward_Finley"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5233173"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump