A Representative from Pennsylvania; attended the public schools, Graduated Hill School, Pottstown, Pa. 1882, and Phillips Academy,* Andover, Ma.; was graduated from the law department of Harvard University in 1886; was admitted to the bar December 6, 1886, and began practice at Clearfield, 1886. Practiced law in Minnesota, Nebraska, and also at Bellefonte, Pa. where he was elected burgess;** returned to Clearfield, Pa., in 1892 and continued the practice of law; county chairman and district attorney for Clearfield County 1901-1907; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1916; deputy attorney general for Pennsylvania 1919-1923; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1927) 23rd Pa. District.; chairman, Committee on Invalid Pensions (Sixty-ninth Congress); Speaker for Republican National Committee in all Presidential Campaigns, 1900-1920. Declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1926; resumed the practice of law in Clearfield, Pa., until his death there.981,980
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A John Patton Swoope (1891-1892) headstone appears at this source.982
[Possibly a son of William and wife Elizabeth?]


*Phillips Academy is the same school that Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush attended. The prep school is one of the oldest incorporated boarding schools in the United States.983

†Burgess is a magistrate of a borough; generally, the chief officer of the corporation, who performs, within the borough, the same kind of duties which a mayor does in a city.890