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King Swope
King Swope (August 10, 1893 – April 23, 1961) was an American politician who served as a United States Representative from Kentucky. He was born in Danville, Kentucky. He attended the common schools and graduated from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky in 1914, and from the law department of the University of Kentucky at Lexington in 1916. He was admitted to the bar in 1915, and commenced practice in Lexington, Kentucky.
Swope enlisted and served during the First World War as captain of Infantry. He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Harvey Helm (August 1, 1919 – March 3, 1921). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-seventh Congress in 1920.
Swope was appointed aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel on the staff of Governor Edwin P. Morrow in 1919, before resuming the practice of law. He was the chairman of the Republican executive committee of Fayette County, Kentucky from 1928 to 1931, and was appointed and subsequently elected a judge of the circuit court of the twenty-second judicial district of Kentucky and served from 1931 to 1940. He was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Governor of Kentucky in 1935 and 1939. He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1936, 1940, and 1944 and chairman of the Republican State convention in 1936. He was also a member of the judicial council of Kentucky 1931-1940. He died in Lexington, Kentucky in 1961 and was buried at Lexington Cemetery.
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