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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OklahomaFletcher B. SWANK
(1875-1950)
SWANK, Fletcher B., a
Representative from Oklahoma; born near Bloomfield, Davis County,
Iowa, April 24, 1875; moved with his parents to Beef Creek, Indian
Territory, in 1888; attended an academy in Noble, Okla., and
University of Oklahoma at Norman; superintendent of schools of
Cleveland County, Okla., 1903-1907; private secretary to
Congressman Scott Ferris in 1907 and 1908; attended the law
department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1907 and
1908, and was graduated from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.,
in 1909; was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in
Norman, Cleveland County, Okla.; judge of the county court of
Cleveland County, Okla., 1911-1915; judge of the fourteenth
judicial district of Oklahoma from 1915 to September 1920, when he
resigned; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh and to the
three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1929);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first
Congress; elected to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third
Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1935); unsuccessful candidate
for renomination in 1934; died in Norman, Okla., March 16, 1950;
interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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