Charles Edward Swanson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Charles Edward Swanson

American politician

Date of Birth: 03-Jan-1879

Place of Birth: Galesburg, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 22-Aug-1970

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Charles Edward Swanson

  • Charles Edward Swanson (January 3, 1879 – August 22, 1970) served two terms as a Republican U.S.
  • Representative from Iowa's 9th congressional district.
  • His congressional career ended in the landslide that accompanied the election of Franklin D.
  • Roosevelt to his first term as president. Swanson was born in a farm near Galesburg, Illinois to Swedish immigrants, he attended the public schools in Galesburg.
  • In 1890 he moved to Iowa with his parents, who settled on a farm in Ringgold County.
  • He resumed his studies in the public school at Clearfield, Iowa. He returned to Galesburg to attend Knox College, where he graduated in 1902.
  • He then served as principal of schools at Altona, Illinois from 1902 to 1904.
  • He attended law school at Northwestern University and graduated in 1907, when he was admitted to the bar.
  • He went into private practice in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he served as prosecuting attorney of Pottawattamie County, Iowa from 1915 to 1922. In 1928, Swanson was elected as a Republican to the U.S.
  • House of Representatives.
  • He was re-elected once, two years later.
  • However, after reapportionment in 1931 placed him in Iowa's 7th congressional district, he prevailed in the Republican primary but lost in the general election to Democrat Otha Wearin.
  • After resuming the practice of law, Swanson attempted to regain his seat in 1934, but was again defeated by Wearin.
  • In all Swanson served in the Seventy-first and to the Seventy-second Congresses from March 4, 1929 to March 3, 1933. Swanson later served as chairman of the Council Bluffs Board of Tax Review from 1949 to 1968.
  • He died in Council Bluffs on August 22, 1970, and was interred in Walnut Hill Cemetery.

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