Charles Edward Swanson

Charles Edward Swanson (* 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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1890, Charles Swanson came with his parents to Iowa, where the family settled on a farm in Ringgold County. He attended the 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 its made ​​in 1907 admitted to the bar he began in Council Bluffs to work in his new profession. Between 1915 and 1922 he was district attorney in Pottawattamie County.

Politically, Swanson member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1928 he was in the ninth constituency of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1929, the successor of Earl W. Vincent. After a re-election in 1930 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 two legislative sessions. This period was overshadowed by the global economic crisis. Shortly before the end of his last term of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution in Congress was discussed and approved, the newly regulated the beginning and the end of the legislative sessions of the Congress and the terms of office of the U.S. president. In the 1932 elections, Swanson was beaten by the Democrats Guy Gillette. This election victory was in the then Federal trend in favor of the Democrats, who also won the presidential election this year, with Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1934 Swanson competed again unsuccessfully to return to the U.S. House of Representatives. Otherwise, he worked as a lawyer. Between 1949 and 1968 he was chairman of the municipal Tax Commission of Council Bluffs. He died on 22 August 1970.