Charles Swindall

Charles Swindall

Charles Swindall (born February 13, 1876 in Terrell , Kaufman County , Texas , † June 19, 1939 in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1920 and 1921 he represented the eighth constituency of the state of Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Swindall attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville after elementary school and then studied law at Cumberland University in Lebanon until 1897 . After his admission to the bar in the same year, he began to work in Woodward in what was then the Oklahoma Territory in his new profession. Between 1898 and 1900 he was a district attorney in what was then Day County, which is now Ellis County . He then worked again as a lawyer in Woodward.

Swindall became a member of the Republican Party and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in 1916 . After the death of Congressman Dick Thompson Morgan on July 4, 1920, by-elections took place in the eighth district of Oklahoma, which Swindall won, making him Morgan's successor in the House of Representatives in Washington, DC . There he was only able to exercise his mandate for four months between November 2, 1920 and March 3, 1921 because he was no longer nominated by his party in the regular congressional elections in 1920.

After his brief tenure in Congress , Swindall returned to practice as a lawyer. From 1924 to 1929 he was a judge in the 20th District of Oklahoma and from 1929 to 1934 he served as a judge on the Oklahoma Supreme Court . He then returned to practice as a lawyer until his death in 1939.

Web links

• Charles Swindall in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles Swindall in the database of Find a Grave (English)