Fletcher B. Swank
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Fletcher B. Swank was a U.S. Representative
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 from Oklahoma
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Born near Bloomfield, Iowa
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, Swank moved with his parents to Beef Creek, Indian Territory, in 1888.
He attended an academy in Noble, Oklahoma
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, and University of Oklahoma
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 in Norman
Norman, Oklahoma
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Superintendent of schools of Cleveland County, Oklahoma
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 from 1903 to 1907.
Private secretary to Congressman Scott Ferris
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 in 1907 and 1908.
He attended the law department of Georgetown University
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, Washington, D.C.
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, in 1907 and 1908, and was graduated from Cumberland University
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, Lebanon, Tennessee
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, in 1909.
He was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in Norman, Oklahoma
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He served as judge of the county court of Cleveland County, Oklahoma
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 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
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 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
Norman, Oklahoma
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, March 16, 1950.
He was interred in Odd Fellows Cemetery.

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