Fletcher B. Swank

Fletcher B. Swank
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Oklahoma's 5th district
In office
March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1929
Preceded by John W. Harreld
Succeeded by Ulysses S. Stone
In office
March 4, 1931 – January 3, 1935
Preceded by Ulysses S. Stone
Succeeded by Joshua B. Lee
Personal details
Born April 24, 1875
Bloomfield, Iowa
Died March 16, 1950 (aged 74)
Norman, Oklahoma
Citizenship  United States
Political party Democratic Party
Spouse(s) Ada Blake Swank
Children Fletcher B.

James Wallace

Alma mater University of Oklahoma

Cumberland University

Profession teacher

school superintendent

Attorney

politician

judge

Religion Methodist

Fletcher B. Swank (April 24, 1875 - March 16, 1950) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.

Biography

Born near Bloomfield, Iowa, Swank was the son of Wallace and Melinda Wells Swank. He moved with his parents to Beef Creek, Indian Territory, in 1888, and attended an academy in Noble, Oklahoma, and University of Oklahoma in Norman. He married Ada Blake on December 30, 1914; and the couple had two children, Fletcher B. and James Wallace.[1]

Career

Swank taught school at Stella, and in 1902 he was elected Cleveland County school superintendent, serving from 1903 to 1907. Swank became Private secretary to Congressman Scott Ferris in 1907 and 1908. He attended the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1907 and 1908, and was graduated from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1909. Admitted to the bar in 1909, he commenced practice in Norman, Oklahoma. He served as judge of the county court of Cleveland County, Oklahoma from 1911 to 1915, and as judge of the fourteenth judicial district of Oklahoma from 1915 to September 1920, when he resigned.[2]

Swank was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses serving from March 4, 1921 to March 3, 1929. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress, he was elected to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1931 to January 3, 1935.[3] He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934.

Death

Swank died in Norman, Cleveland County, Oklahoma, on March 16, 1950 (age 74 years, 326 days). He is interred at Odd Fellows Cemetery, Norman, Oklahoma.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Fletcher B. Swank". Oklahoma Historical Society. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "Fletcher B. Swank". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  3. ↑ "Fletcher B. Swank". Govtrack US Congress. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "Fletcher B. Swank". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved 30 May 2013.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
John W. Harreld		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Oklahoma's 5th congressional district
1921–1929 		Succeeded by
Ulysses S. Stone
Preceded by
Ulysses S. Stone		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Oklahoma's 5th congressional district
1931-1935 		Succeeded by
Joshua B. Lee