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69th Congress Pictorial Directory, Collection of the U.S. House
of Representatives
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SWING, Philip David, a Representative from California; born in San Bernardino, Calif.,
November 30, 1884; attended the public schools and was graduated from Stanford
University in 1905; first lieutenant in the California National Guard
1906-1908; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1907 and commenced practice
in San Bernardino; city attorney of Brawley, Calif., in 1908 and 1909; deputy
district attorney of Imperial County 1908-1911 and district attorney 1911-1915;
chief counsel of the Imperial Irrigation District 1916-1919; judge of the
superior court of Imperial County 1919-1921; delegate to the Republican State
conventions at Sacramento, Calif., 1920-1932, serving as chairman in 1926;
during the First World War served as a private in the Officers Training Camp at
Camp Taylor, Ky., in 1918; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to
the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1933); chairman,
Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Sixty-ninth Congress);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1932; resumed law practice; appointed a
member of the California State Water Resources Board (now California Water
Commission) in 1945; reappointed in 1950 and served until 1958; died in San
Diego, Calif., August 8, 1963; interment in Greenwood Memorial Park.
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