Fletcher B. Swank

Fletcher B. Swank

Fletcher B. Swank (April 24, 1875 - March 16, 1950) was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.

Born near Bloomfield, Iowa, Swank moved with his parents to Beef Creek, Indian Territory, in 1888.He attended an academy in Noble, Oklahoma, and University of Oklahoma in Norman. Superintendent of schools of Cleveland County, Oklahoma from 1903 to 1907. Private secretary to Congressman Scott Ferris in 1907 and 1908.He attended the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1907 and 1908, and was graduated from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1909.He was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in Norman, Oklahoma.He served as judge of the county court of Cleveland County, Oklahoma from 1911 to 1915.He served as judge of the fourteenth judicial district of Oklahoma from 1915 to September 1920, when he resigned.

Swank was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1929).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress.

Swank was elected to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1935).He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934.He died in Norman, Oklahoma, March 16, 1950.He was interred in Odd Fellows Cemetery.

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