1. Charles Swindall was a US Representative from Oklahoma.
10 Facts About Charles Swindall
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Charles Swindall graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1897.
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Charles Swindall was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Woodward, Oklahoma.
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Charles Swindall was a member of the Oklahoma State Republican Committee from 1919 to 1929.
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Charles Swindall was appointed April 26,1924, judge of the twentieth judicial district of Oklahoma.
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Charles Swindall holds the title of the first Oklahoma judge to give a death sentence for committing a robbery with firearms.
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Charles Swindall served as a justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court from 1929 to 1934.
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Charles Swindall refused to be partisan in his nominees, preferring to judge candidates on their qualifications, not their loyalty to a particular party.
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Charles Swindall sued the Board and was victorious in his suit, but did not win re-election.
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Charles Swindall died of a heart attack on June 19,1939, in Oklahoma City, and was interred in Memorial Park Cemetery.