Guy J. Swope

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Guy J. Swope (December 26, 1892 - July 25, 1969) was a teacher, accountant, and Democratic politician whose career included one term as a United States Congressman in the Seventy-seventh United States Congress, serving as a Director in the United States Department of Interior under Franklin D. Roosevelt, and serving for a brief period as (acting) Governor of Puerto Rico in 1941. He also served in the United States Naval Reserve, Military Government Branch where he attained the rank of Commander.

He was born in Meckville, Pennsylvania and studied in Keystone State Teachers College and Columbia University School of International Affairs. After graduation, he first worked as a teacher in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania and later as an agent for the Internal Revenue Service. In 1935, he became the budgetary secretary for Pennsylvania and served in that position for two years before being elected to congress in 1936. He failed to win re-elected in 1938.

He was made auditor of Puerto Rico in 1940 and served in that capacity for only a year before being appointed acting Governor. He only worked as governor for less than a year before becoming a Director in the Division of Territories and Island Possessions for the Department of the Interior.

During the Second World War, he joined the United States Naval Reserve. After the war, he was a civilian chief of the National Government Division in Tokyo, Japan and later as an assistant to the American High Commissioner in Germany.

After the war, he returned to political life with a failed bid for re-election to Congress in 1956, but he was appointed Deputy State Treasurer of Pennsylvania from 1961 until his retirement in 1965.

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• Guy J. Swope at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Preceded by Isaac H. Doutrich	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district 1937-1939	Succeeded by John C. Kunkel
Preceded by José Miguel Gallardo	Governor of Puerto Rico 1941	Succeeded by José Miguel Gallardo