Richard Swett

Richard Swett campaigning with his wife Katrina during their congressional candidacy (2007)

Richard "Dick" Swett (born May 1, 1957 in Bryn Mawr , Montgomery County , Pennsylvania ) is an American politician . Between 1991 and 1995 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives . From 1998 to 2001 he was the United States Ambassador to Denmark .

Career

Richard Swett had come to New Hampshire with his parents as a child. There he attended the public schools in Meredith and Laconia . He then studied architecture at Yale University until 1979 . In the following years he worked in this profession.

Swett joined the Democratic Party . In 1990 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC as their candidate in the second constituency of New Hampshire . There he stepped on January 3, 1991 to succeed Republican Chuck Douglas , whom he had defeated in the election. After re-election in 1992, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1995 . In the 1994 election he was defeated by Republican candidate Charles Bass .

In 1996, Swett ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate . In 1998 he was appointed ambassador to Denmark by US President Bill Clinton . He held this post until 2001. In 2002, his wife Katrina, the daughter of Californian Congressman Tom Lantos , ran unsuccessfully against Charles Bass for her husband's old seat in Congress.

The Swett couple now live in Bow , New Hampshire. Richard Swett is working as an architect again. He heads the office of an architects' office in the federal capital Washington. He also has his own company in New Hampshire called Swett Associates .

Web links

• Richard Swett in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)