William Irvin Swoope

William Irvin Swoope ( born October 3, 1862 in Clearfield, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, † October 9, 1930 ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1927 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Swoope was the nephew of Congressman John Patton ( 1823-1897 ). He attended the common schools and then the Hill School in Pottstown. Then he graduated from the Phillips Academy in Andover (Massachusetts ). After studying law at Harvard University and his 1886 was admitted to the bar he began in the states of Minnesota and Nebraska to work in this profession. Later he practiced in Bellevue (Pennsylvania), where he was for some time mayor (Burgess). Since 1892 he again lived in Clearfield, where he continued to work as a lawyer. Between 1901 and 1907 he served as District Attorney in Clearfield County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In June 1916 he took part in Chicago as a delegate to the Republican National Convention. From 1919 to 1923 he was Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1922 Swoope was the 23rd electoral district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Austin Kendall on March 4, 1923. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1927 two legislative sessions. Since 1925 he was chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions. In 1926 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives William Swoope was back working as a lawyer in Clearfield, where he died on 9 October 1930.