Henry Adoniram Swift

Henry Adoniram Swift ( born March 23, 1823 in Ravenna, Ohio; † February 25, 1869 in St. Peter, Minnesota ) was an American politician of the Republican party and third Governor of the State of Minnesota.

After graduating from Western Reserve College in his native Ohio Swift worked as a teacher for the children of slave owners in Mississippi. However, the experience gained, confirmed him in his abolitionist opinion, so he returned to Ohio, and there began to study law. After graduation, he worked as a businessman. His political career began in 1846, when he worked for the House of Representatives from Ohio.

In 1853 he moved with his family to Saint Paul, Minnesota and later to St. Peter, where he worked in real estate and insurance business. In 1862 he was elected to the Senate. In 1863 he replaced the exchanged in the U.S. Congress Ignatius L. Donnelly, Office of the Lieutenant Governor, the same year he was on 10 July 1863, the third Governor of the State. He assumed the office of Alexander Ramsey, who had been elected as a Senator in the Congress of the United States until the end of his term of office on 11 January 1864. From his party but he was not prepared for re-election. At the age of 45 years, Swift died of typhus.

Swift was married and had five children. 1870 Swift County was named after him.