1. Benjamin Swift was an American lawyer, banker and politician from Vermont.
11 Facts About Benjamin Swift
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Benjamin Swift served as a United States Representative and United States Senator, and helped found the Whig Party.
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Benjamin Swift attended the common schools in Bennington before attending Litchfield Law School in 1801.
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Benjamin Swift studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1806.
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Benjamin Swift began the practice of law in Bennigton before moving to Manchester to practice law.
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Benjamin Swift engaged in banking and farming in the area.
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Benjamin Swift held various political positions in Vermont, and was elected to the Vermont State House in 1825.
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Benjamin Swift was then elected to serve Vermont as a National Republican Party candidate in the United States House of Representatives.
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Benjamin Swift served in the Twentieth and the Twenty-first Congresses from March 4,1827, to March 3,1831.
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Benjamin Swift was not renominated for a second term in the Senate and returned to St Albans where he continued to work as a lawyer and farmer until his death.
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Benjamin Swift died on November 11,1847, in St Albans, Vermont and is interred in Greenwood Cemetery in St Albans.