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American politician
"Charles Swanson" redirects here. For American swimmer born 1998, see
Charlie Swanson
.
Charles Edward Swanson
(January 3, 1879 ? August 22, 1970) served two terms as a Republican
U.S. Representative
from
Iowa's 9th congressional district
. His congressional career ended in the landslide that accompanied the election of
Franklin D. Roosevelt
to his first term as president.
Swanson was born in a farm near
Galesburg, Illinois
to
Swedish
immigrants,
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he attended the public schools in Galesburg. In 1890 he moved to Iowa with his parents, who settled on a farm in
Ringgold County
. He resumed his studies in the public school at
Clearfield, Iowa
.
He returned to Galesburg to attend
Knox College
, where he graduated in 1902. He then served as principal of schools at
Altona, Illinois
from 1902 to 1904. He attended law school at
Northwestern University
and graduated in 1907, when he was admitted to the bar. He went into private practice in
Council Bluffs, Iowa
, where he served as prosecuting attorney of
Pottawattamie County, Iowa
from 1915 to 1922.
In 1928, Swanson was elected as a
Republican
to the
U.S. House of Representatives
. He was re-elected once, two years later. However, after reapportionment in 1931 placed him in
Iowa's 7th congressional district
, he prevailed in the Republican primary but lost in the general election to Democrat
Otha Wearin
. After resuming the practice of law, Swanson attempted to regain his seat in 1934, but was again defeated by Wearin. In all Swanson served in the Seventy-first and to the Seventy-second Congresses from March 4, 1929 to March 3, 1933.
Swanson later served as chairman of the Council Bluffs Board of Tax Review from 1949 to 1968. He died in Council Bluffs on August 22, 1970, and was interred in
Walnut Hill Cemetery
.
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