Jacob Swoope ('' ca.'' 17661832) was an eighteenth and nineteenth century

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around 1766,Encyclopedia Virginia
/ref> Swoope attended the common schools as a child. He moved to Staunton, Virginia in 1789 and held several local offices before being elected the first mayor of Staunton under the new charter of 1801. He was reelected mayor in 1804 before being elected a

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in 1808, serving from 1809 to 1811 having defeated Democratic-Republican Daniel Smith. Swoope died in Staunton in 1832 and was interred there in Trinity Episcopal Churchyard.

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1766 births 1832 deaths Mayors of Staunton, Virginia Politicians from Philadelphia Date of death missing Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia {{Virginia-mayor-stub