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Up for sale a RARE! "Pennsylvania Congressman" John Augustus Swope Hand Signed Album Page.
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John Augustus Swope (December 25,
1827 – December 6, 1910) was a Democratic member
of the U.S. House was born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
He attended the common schools at Gettysburg and Mount St. Mary’s Academy
in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He
graduated from Princeton College in
1847 and from the medical department of the University of discontinued the practice of medicine after a few years and engaged in
mercantile pursuits in Baltimore, Maryland. He
returned to Gettysburg and became president of the Gettysburg National Bank in
1879. He was also engaged in manufacturing and agricultural pursuits. Swope was
elected in 1884 as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William A.
Duncan. He was subsequently elected in 1885 to the Forty-ninth Congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Duncan, who had been reelected.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1886. He moved to Washington, D.C., and engaged in banking until his death there
in 1910. He was interred in Evergreen
Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
