John Augustus Swope

John Augustus Swope (December 25, 1827 – December 6, 1910) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

John Augustus Swope
From 1896's History of the Swope Family and Their Connections, 1678-1896
Born	December 25, 1827 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Died	December 6, 1910(1910-12-06) (aged 82)
Resting place	Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Alma mater	Mount St. Mary Academy Princeton College (1847) University of Pennsylvania
Political party	Democratic

Biography

Born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on December 25, 1827, Swope attended the common schools in Gettysburg and Mount St. Mary’s Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland. A graduate of Princeton College in 1847 and then the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, he subsequently entered the practice of medicine, but discontinued that work after a few years and began mercantile work in Baltimore, 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 the Forty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William A. Duncan, serving from December 23, 1884, through March 3, 1885. He was then elected in 1885 to the Forty-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.

Later years, death and interment

He relocated to Washington, D.C., where he engaged in banking until his death there in 1910. He was interred in the Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Sources

• United States Congress. "John Augustus Swope (id: S001128)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• The Political Graveyard

External links

• John Augustus Swope at Find a Grave