Henry Adoniram Swift was an American politician who was the 3rd Governor of Minnesota. He served as Governor from July 10, 1863 to January 11, 1864 after serving as the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota when Governor Alexander Ramsey resigned to enter the United States Congress. Prior to that he had served in the Minnesota Senate. Swift was a Republican.
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- Henry Adoniram Swift was an American politician who was the 3rd Governor of Minnesota. He served as Governor from July 10, 1863 to January 11, 1864 after serving as the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota when Governor Alexander Ramsey resigned to enter the United States Congress. Prior to that he had served in the Minnesota Senate. Swift was a Republican. Described by peers as gentle, self-effacing, and ambivalent toward politics, Henry Swift was Minnesota's third governor for less than a year, completing the second term of Alexander Ramsey, who had been elected United States Senator. With little time or apparent inclination to effect major change, this un-elected governor concentrated on assuring the welfare of Civil War veterans. After graduation with honors from Western Reserve College in his native Ohio, Swift tutored the children of a slave owner in Mississippi, an experience that reinforced his commitment to abolition. He returned to Ohio, earned a law degree, and began a career in business and government service. He and his family journeyed to Minnesota in 1853, settling first in St. Paul then St. Peter. With his partners in the St. Peter Land Company, he campaigned, unsuccessfully, to relocate the state capital in their burgeoning Minnesota River town. Swift left his commercial enterprises in 1861 for the state senate seat that propelled him into the governorship. Later he served two more terms in the senate and was a reluctant candidate for the U.S. Senate. "I shall be ten times happier with my family in St. Peter than as Senator at Washington," he declared characteristically upon learning he had lost the Republican senatorial nomination in 1865. Four years later, he succumbed to typhoid fever at age 45. Swift County, Minnesota was named after him in 1870.
- Henry Adoniram Swift war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker der Republikanischen Partei und dritter Gouverneur des Bundesstaates Minnesota. Nach seinem Abschluss am Western Reserve College in seiner Heimat Ohio arbeitete Swift als Lehrer für die Kinder von Sklavenbesitzern in Mississippi. Die gesammelten Erfahrungen bestärkten ihn jedoch in seiner abolitionistischen Meinung, sodass er wieder nach Ohio zurückkehrte und dort ein Studium der Rechtswissenschaften begann. Nach dem Abschluss arbeitete er als Geschäftsmann. Seine politische Karriere begann er 1846, als er für das Repräsentantenhaus von Ohio arbeite. 1853 zog er mit seiner Familie nach Saint Paul in Minnesota und später nach St. Peter und arbeitete dort im Immobilien- und Versicherungsgeschäft. 1862 wurde er in den Senat gewählt. 1863 ersetzte er den in den US-Kongress gewechselten Ignatius L. Donnelly im Amt des Lieutenant Governor, ein Jahr später wurde er am 10. Juli 1864 der dritte Gouverneur des Bundesstaates. Er übernahm das Amt von Alexander Ramsey, der als Senator in den Kongress der Vereinigten Staaten gewählt worden war, bis zum Ende von dessen Amtszeit am 11. Januar 1864. Von seiner Partei wurde er jedoch nicht erneut zur Wahl aufgestellt. Im Alter von 45 Jahren starb Swift an Typhus. Swift war verheiratet und hatte fünf Kinder. 1870 wurde das Swift County nach ihm benannt.
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- lawyer, businessperson, abolitionist
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- Henry Adoniram Swift was an American politician who was the 3rd Governor of Minnesota. He served as Governor from July 10, 1863 to January 11, 1864 after serving as the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota when Governor Alexander Ramsey resigned to enter the United States Congress. Prior to that he had served in the Minnesota Senate. Swift was a Republican.
- Henry Adoniram Swift war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker der Republikanischen Partei und dritter Gouverneur des Bundesstaates Minnesota. Nach seinem Abschluss am Western Reserve College in seiner Heimat Ohio arbeitete Swift als Lehrer für die Kinder von Sklavenbesitzern in Mississippi. Die gesammelten Erfahrungen bestärkten ihn jedoch in seiner abolitionistischen Meinung, sodass er wieder nach Ohio zurückkehrte und dort ein Studium der Rechtswissenschaften begann.
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