John Augustus Swope | |
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| Born | (1827-12-25)December 25, 1827 |
| Died | December 6, 1910(1910-12-06) (aged 82) Washington, D.C., US |
| Resting place | Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania |
| Alma mater | Mount St. Mary Academy Princeton College (1847) University of Pennsylvania |
| Political party | Democratic |
John Augustus Swope (December 25, 1827 – December 6, 1910) was aDemocratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania.
Born inGettysburg, Pennsylvania, on December 25, 1827, Swope attended the common schools in Gettysburg and Mount St. Mary's Academy inEmmitsburg, Maryland. A graduate ofPrinceton College in 1847 and then the medical department of theUniversity of Pennsylvania inPhiladelphia, he subsequently entered the practice of medicine, but discontinued that work after a few years and began mercantile work inBaltimore, Maryland.
He then returned to Gettysburg, where he became president of the Gettysburg National Bank in 1879, and subsequently engaged in manufacturing and agricultural pursuits.
Swope was elected in 1884 as a Democrat to theForty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofWilliam A. Duncan, serving from December 23, 1884, through March 3, 1885. He was then elected in 1885 to theForty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Duncan, who had been reelected, and served from November 3, 1885, through March 3, 1887. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1886.
He relocated toWashington, D.C., where he engaged in banking until his death there on December 6, 1910.[1] He was interred in theEvergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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