Alfred P. Swineford

Alfred Peter Swineford (September 14, 1836ndash October 26, 1909) was an American Democratic politician who was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives, 1871 to 1872. In 1878 he was a candidate in the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Michigan, losing to Lysander Woodward, who went on to lose in the general election to the Republican incumbent Alonzo Sessions. He was a newspaper editor in Marquette, Michigan.

President Grover Cleveland appointed Swineford as Governor of the District of Alaska, where he served from 1885 to 1889. In 1906, he was a candidate to be the first Delegate to the United States Congress from the District of Alaska, losing in an election on August 14 1906 to Democrat Frank Hinman Waskey.

Swineford was born in Ashland, Ohio and died at Juneau, Alaska, where he is buried at Evergreen Cemetery.

He was married to Psyche Flower.

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