Joshua William Swartz

Joshua William Swartz ( born June 9, 1867 Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, † 27 May 1959 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1925 and 1927 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joshua Swartz grew up on his father's farm and attended the common schools, the Lebanon Valley College and the Williamsport Commercial School. After a subsequent law studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle and his 1892 was admitted to the bar he began in Harrisburg to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1915 and 1917 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1924, Swartz was in the 19th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Frank Crawford Sites on March 4, 1925. Since he resigned in 1926 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1927.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Joshua Swartz again practiced as a lawyer in Harrisburg. Politically, he is no more have appeared. He died on 27 May 1959 in his hometown of Harrisburg.