John Jackson McSwain (May 1, 1875 – August 6, 1936) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
South Carolina
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.
Born on a farm near
Cross Hill, South Carolina
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History
Cross Hill developed around the ...
, McSwain attended the public schools. He graduated from Wofford College Fitting School in 1893 and from the
University of South Carolina at Columbia
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in 1897. He taught school in Marlboro, Abbeville, and Anderson Counties. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1901 and commenced practice in
Greenville, South Carolina
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. He served as a referee in bankruptcy from 1912 to 1917. He entered the officers' training camp at
Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia
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, May 12, 1917, and served in the First World War as captain of Company A, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Infantry, until March 6, 1919, when he was honorably discharged. He resumed the practice of law in Greenville, South Carolina.
McSwain was elected as a
Democrat
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to the Sixty-seventh and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1921, until his death. He served as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs (Seventy-second through Seventy-fourth Congresses). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1936. He died in
Columbia, South Carolina
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, on August 6, 1936.
He was interred in
Springwood Cemetery
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, Greenville, South Carolina.
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1875 births
Wofford College alumni
University of South Carolina alumni
1936 deaths
United States Army officers
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina
Burials at Springwood Cemetery
20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives