- William Irvin Swoope
William Irvin Swoope (
October 3 ,1862 –October 9 ,1930 ) was a Republican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Swoope was born in
Clearfield, Pennsylvania . He attended thePhillips Academy inAndover, Massachusetts , and graduated from the law department ofHarvard University in 1886. He was admitted to the bar in 1886, and practiced law inMinnesota ,Nebraska , andBellefonte, Pennsylvania . He was elected burgess of Bellefonte. In 1892, he returned to Clearfield and continued the practice of law. He was elected county chairman and district attorney for Clearfield County from 1901 to 1907. He was a delegate to the1916 Republican National Convention . He served as deputy attorney general for Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1923.Swoope was elected as a Republican to the sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses. He served as Chairman of the
United States House Committee on Invalid Pensions during the Sixty-ninth Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1926. He resumed the practice of law in Clearfield until his death. Interment in Hillcrest Cemetery.He was the nephew of U.S. Representative John Patton from Pennsylvania.
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