Melvin Swig

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Melvin Swig was a San Francisco real estate developer and philanthropist.

Mel Swig was born in Boston, and was a son of Benjamin Swig. He graduated from Brown University in 1939. Swig was a real estate developer and philanthropist, in San Francisco and New York. He was heir to the Saint Francis Hotel chain, and former chairman of the Swig, Weiler & Dinner Development Company, of San Francisco and Manhattan, a family-owned real estate company with holdings including the Fairmont Hotels. Swig served in the United States Army in World War II and later moved to San Francisco.

In San Francisco, Swig was President of the Jewish Community Federation and the Jewish Community Endowment Fund. He established a program for Judaic studies and was chairman of the University of San Francisco. Swig married the former Charlotte Mailliard. After his death, she later married George Pratt Shultz.