John Franklin Swift

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John Franklin Swift

John Franklin Swift (born February 28, 1829 in Bowling Green , Kentucky , † March 10, 1891 in Tokyo ) was an American author and politician .

Life

John Franklin Swift was born in Bowling Green in February 1829. He spent most of his life in San Francisco . Almost nothing is known about his childhood. In 1863 he sat for the first time as a Republican MP in the California State Assembly ; further terms followed from 1873 to 1875 and from 1877 to 1880. From 1865 to 1866 Smith worked for the US Land Office. He was appointed to serve as regent for the University of California from 1872 to 1888. In June 1888 he took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Chicago .

In 1867 Swift traveled to the Holy Land on the USS Quarker City . Mark Twain mentioned this trip in his book The Guilty Abroad . As a legislator, he wrote new regulations in the California constitution that were enacted by the regulatory authority to regulate water use . In 1880 Swift traveled to Beijing with commissioners William Henry Trecot and James Burrill Angell as a member of the treaty commission. The starting point was the Angell Treaty of 1880 to regulate the immigration of Chinese workers to the United States. At the Chae Chan Ping, Swift managed to uphold labor immigration law at the California Supreme Court.

On March 12, 1889, Swift was appointed US envoy to Japan by US President Benjamin Harrison . He took office as the successor to Richard B. Hubbard on May 15 of the same year and died on March 10, 1891 in Tokyo. He was followed by Frank Coombs to as an envoy.

Publications

Swift has published several books as an author, including:

  • Sketches of Travel in Spain and the East (1868)
  • An American Novel (1870)
  • Speech Of The Hon. John F. Swift (1872)
  • A Story Of The Nevada Silver Mines (1878)
  • The Present and Future of the University (1887)
  • California a Republican state: Address to the Republicans of California (1888)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wikisource.org
  2. ↑ California Supreme Court
  3. ↑ State Department: John Franklin Swift (1829-1891)
personal data
SURNAME Swift, John Franklin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Bowling Green , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1891
Place of death Tokyo