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SWEARINGEN, Henry (??-1849)

Democrat of Ohio

19th congressional district

Served in House 1837-1841

Total roll-call votes cast: 647

Biography

Representative from Ohio; born in the Panhandle of Virginia about 1792; moved to Ohio and settled near Steubenville; sheriff of Jefferson County, Ohio, 1824-1828 and 1830-1832; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Kilgore; reelected to the Twenty-sixth Congress and served from December 3, 1838, to March 3, 1841; died on board ship while en route to his home from the State of California and was buried at sea in 1849.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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