Charles Swindall
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Charles Swindall (February 13, 1876 - June 19, 1939) was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.
Born at College Mound, near Terrell, Texas, Swindall attended the public schools and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He was graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1897. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Woodward, Oklahoma. He served as prosecuting attorney of Day (later Ellis) County 1898-1900. He returned to Woodward in 1900 and continued the practice of law. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1916.
Swindall was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dick T. Morgan, and served from November 2, 1920, to March 3, 1921. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress. He resumed the practice of law in Woodward, Oklahoma. He was appointed April 26, 1924, judge of the twentieth judicial district of Oklahoma, in which capacity he served until 1929. He served as justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court 1929-1934. He resumed the practice of law in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, until his death there June 19, 1939. He was interred in Memorial Park Cemetery.
