Ole J. Finstad (March 29, 1878 – February 7, 1960) was a state senator and lawyer from Windom, Minnesota.

[1] Finstad was born in 1878 on a farm near Avoca in Murray County, Minnesota.

[1] When he was two or three years old, his mother died so he was raised in Christiania Township south of Windom, Minnesota by a Johnson family.

[1] Finstad was admitted to the Minnesota State Bar Association on June 5, 1903.

[3] Finstad was preceded by Moses Frost[4] and succeeded by Bjarne Elgar Grottum.