J. Howard Swick

Jesse Howard Swick (* August 6, 1879 in New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, † November 17, 1952 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1927 and 1935 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Howard Swick attended the common schools and the Geneva College in Beaver Falls. Between 1895 and 1900 he worked in Beaver County as a teacher. After studying medicine at the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia and his 1906 was admitted to the bar he began in Beaver Falls to work in this profession. From 1907 to 1914 he was head of its health authority. During the First World War he was 1917-1919, first lieutenant, and then captain in an ambulance unit of the U.S. Army. He was used in Europe. After the war he practiced again as a doctor in Beaver Falls. He was also active in the banking industry and in the manufacture of steel products. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. From 1925 to 1927 he sat on the city council of Beaver Falls.

In the congressional elections of 1926, Swick in the 26th electoral district of Pennsylvania was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas Wharton Phillips on March 4, 1927. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1935 four legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the world economic crisis since 1929. Since 1933, the first New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration were adopted, which Swicks party faced a rather negative. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3.

In 1934, Swick was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked again as a doctor. In August 1945, he withdrew into retirement. He died on November 17, 1952 in Beaver Falls.