Claude A. Swanson

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Claude Augustus Swanson (March 31, 1862July 7, 1939) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Virginia.

He served seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1893 until 1906, was the Governor of Virginia from 1906 until 1910, and represented Virginia as a United States Senator from 1910 until 1933.

He was Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 until his death.

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Preceded by:
Andrew Jackson Montague
Governor of Virginia
1906–1910
Succeeded by:
William Hodges Mann
Preceded by:
John W. Daniel
U.S. Senator from Virginia
19101933
Succeeded by:
Harry F. Byrd
Preceded by:
Charles F. Adams
United States Secretary of the Navy
19331939
Succeeded by:
Charles Edison
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