Charles Edward Swanson

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Charles Edward Swanson (born January 3, 1879 in Galesburg , Knox County , Illinois , †  August 22, 1970 in Council Bluffs , Iowa ) was an American politician . Between 1929 and 1933 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1890, Charles Swanson came to Iowa with his parents, where the family settled on a farm in Ringgold County . He attended public schools in Illinois and Iowa. In 1902 he graduated from Knox College in Galesburg. In the following years Swanson worked as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree at Northwestern University in Evanston and his admission to the bar in 1907, he began to work in Council Bluffs in his new profession. Between 1915 and 1922 he was a district attorney in Pottawattamie County .

Politically, Swanson was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1928 congressional election, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Iowa . There he took over from Earl W. Vincent on March 4, 1929 . After re-election in 1930, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1933 . This time was overshadowed by the global economic crisis. Shortly before the end of its last legislative term, the 20th amendment to the constitution was discussed and passed in Congress, which regulated the beginning and end of the legislative periods of the Congress and the terms of office of the US President. In the 1932 election, Swanson was defeated by Democrat Guy Gillette . This election victory was in the federal trend at the time in favor of the Democrats, who, along with Franklin D. Roosevelt, also won the presidential election of that year.

In 1934, Swanson applied again unsuccessfully to return to the US House of Representatives. Otherwise he worked as a lawyer. Between 1949 and 1968 he was Chairman of the Council Bluffs Municipal Tax Commission. He died on August 22, 1970.

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SURNAME Swanson, Charles Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH near Galesburg , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1970
Place of death Council Bluffs , Iowa