Edward Ridley Finch (November 15, 1873 – September 16, 1965) was an American lawyer and politician.

His father was Edward Lucius and his mother was Anne Crane (née Ridley).

[1] He was a descendant of Abraham Finch, a native of England, who came to America with John Withrop's company in 1630 and settled in Massachusetts.

In 1934, he ran on the Democratic ticket for the New York Court of Appeals, and was elected to a fourteen-year term, but resigned on April 30, 1943, to resume his private law practice.

Finch's grandson and namesake, Edward Finch Cox, is the son-in-law of former President Richard Nixon and former First Lady Pat Nixon and current chairman of the New York Republican State Committee.