US Congressman. Elected to represent Oklahoma's 8th District in the United States House of Representatives to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman Dick T. Morgan, serving from 1920 to 1921.
________
SWINDALL, CHARLES C.
The Bar of the State of Oklahoma claims as one of its leading representatives in Woodward County the well known attorney whose name initiates this paragraph and whose large and important law business extends not only into the various courts of Oklahoma but also into those of the Panhandle of Texas, is wide ramification affording ample voucher for his distinctive ability in his profession and the high estimate placed upon him as a lawyer and citizen.
Mr. Swindall was born at College Mound, Kaufman County, Texas, on the 13th of February, 1876, and is a son of Jonathan W. and Mary E. (STANDLEY) Swindall.
On the homestead farm of his father, in Kaufman County, Texas, Charles Swindall was reared to manhood and in 1895 he was graduated in the high school in the City of Terrell, that county. In the same year he entered Vanderbilt University, in the City of Nashville, Tennessee, and in the law department of this admirable institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1897 and with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. During his senior year he was vice president of the Philomathian Literary Society of the university.
In the year of his graduation Mr. Swindall came to Oklahoma Territory, and in August of that year he arrived at Woodward with the portentous cash capital of $6. He was forthwith admitted to the territorial bar and gallantly opened an office and prepared to serve his strenuous professional novitiate. During the first six months he supplemented the somewhat precarious income derived from his budding law practice by serving as bookkeeper in a newspaper office. On the 1st of April, 1898, he was appointed county attorney of the adjoining County of Day, and at the ensuing popular election he was chosen the regular incumbent of this office, of which he continued in tenure three years and in which he not only gained secure vantage-place as one of the representative lawyers of Western Oklahoma. He continues a close and appreciate student and his law library is the largest and best private collection of its kind in this section of the state.
Mr. Swindall is a staunch and effective advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican Party and is a representative of Woodward County as a member of the Republican State Central Committee. He has completed the circle of York Rite Masonry and has received also the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, besides being affiliated with the adjunct organization, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was the third to be elected worshipful master of Woodward Lodge, No. 189, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and in his home city he is identified also with the organizations of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Swindall is a member of the Woodward County Bar Association, and in the district of Western Oklahoma he is retained as attorney for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company. He was unanimously selected as a delegate in 1916 to the Republican National Convention at Chicago.
On the 31st of January, 1911, at Guthrie, this state, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Swindall to Miss Emma E. ENDRES, who was born at Macomb, McDonough County, Illinois, on the 19th of September, 1886, the marriage ceremony, at the former territorial capital City of Oklahoma, having been performed by Judge Jesse J. Dunn, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the state. Mrs. Swindall is a daughter of Conrad and Martha Endres, who maintain their home in the City of Wichita, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Swindall have no children. (Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The American Historical Society, 1916).Vol. 5, p. 1906-1907
________
SWINDALL, CHARLES C.
The Bar of the State of Oklahoma claims as one of its leading representatives in Woodward County the well known attorney whose name initiates this paragraph and whose large and important law business extends not only into the various courts of Oklahoma but also into those of the Panhandle of Texas, is wide ramification affording ample voucher for his distinctive ability in his profession and the high estimate placed upon him as a lawyer and citizen.
Mr. Swindall was born at College Mound, Kaufman County, Texas, on the 13th of February, 1876, and is a son of Jonathan W. and Mary E. (STANDLEY) Swindall.
On the homestead farm of his father, in Kaufman County, Texas, Charles Swindall was reared to manhood and in 1895 he was graduated in the high school in the City of Terrell, that county. In the same year he entered Vanderbilt University, in the City of Nashville, Tennessee, and in the law department of this admirable institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1897 and with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. During his senior year he was vice president of the Philomathian Literary Society of the university.
In the year of his graduation Mr. Swindall came to Oklahoma Territory, and in August of that year he arrived at Woodward with the portentous cash capital of $6. He was forthwith admitted to the territorial bar and gallantly opened an office and prepared to serve his strenuous professional novitiate. During the first six months he supplemented the somewhat precarious income derived from his budding law practice by serving as bookkeeper in a newspaper office. On the 1st of April, 1898, he was appointed county attorney of the adjoining County of Day, and at the ensuing popular election he was chosen the regular incumbent of this office, of which he continued in tenure three years and in which he not only gained secure vantage-place as one of the representative lawyers of Western Oklahoma. He continues a close and appreciate student and his law library is the largest and best private collection of its kind in this section of the state.
Mr. Swindall is a staunch and effective advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican Party and is a representative of Woodward County as a member of the Republican State Central Committee. He has completed the circle of York Rite Masonry and has received also the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, besides being affiliated with the adjunct organization, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was the third to be elected worshipful master of Woodward Lodge, No. 189, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and in his home city he is identified also with the organizations of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Swindall is a member of the Woodward County Bar Association, and in the district of Western Oklahoma he is retained as attorney for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company. He was unanimously selected as a delegate in 1916 to the Republican National Convention at Chicago.
On the 31st of January, 1911, at Guthrie, this state, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Swindall to Miss Emma E. ENDRES, who was born at Macomb, McDonough County, Illinois, on the 19th of September, 1886, the marriage ceremony, at the former territorial capital City of Oklahoma, having been performed by Judge Jesse J. Dunn, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the state. Mrs. Swindall is a daughter of Conrad and Martha Endres, who maintain their home in the City of Wichita, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Swindall have no children. (Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The American Historical Society, 1916).Vol. 5, p. 1906-1907
US Congressman. Elected to represent Oklahoma's 8th District in the United States House of Representatives to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman Dick T. Morgan, serving from 1920 to 1921.
________
SWINDALL, CHARLES C.
The Bar of the State of Oklahoma claims as one of its leading representatives in Woodward County the well known attorney whose name initiates this paragraph and whose large and important law business extends not only into the various courts of Oklahoma but also into those of the Panhandle of Texas, is wide ramification affording ample voucher for his distinctive ability in his profession and the high estimate placed upon him as a lawyer and citizen.
Mr. Swindall was born at College Mound, Kaufman County, Texas, on the 13th of February, 1876, and is a son of Jonathan W. and Mary E. (STANDLEY) Swindall.
On the homestead farm of his father, in Kaufman County, Texas, Charles Swindall was reared to manhood and in 1895 he was graduated in the high school in the City of Terrell, that county. In the same year he entered Vanderbilt University, in the City of Nashville, Tennessee, and in the law department of this admirable institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1897 and with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. During his senior year he was vice president of the Philomathian Literary Society of the university.
In the year of his graduation Mr. Swindall came to Oklahoma Territory, and in August of that year he arrived at Woodward with the portentous cash capital of $6. He was forthwith admitted to the territorial bar and gallantly opened an office and prepared to serve his strenuous professional novitiate. During the first six months he supplemented the somewhat precarious income derived from his budding law practice by serving as bookkeeper in a newspaper office. On the 1st of April, 1898, he was appointed county attorney of the adjoining County of Day, and at the ensuing popular election he was chosen the regular incumbent of this office, of which he continued in tenure three years and in which he not only gained secure vantage-place as one of the representative lawyers of Western Oklahoma. He continues a close and appreciate student and his law library is the largest and best private collection of its kind in this section of the state.
Mr. Swindall is a staunch and effective advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican Party and is a representative of Woodward County as a member of the Republican State Central Committee. He has completed the circle of York Rite Masonry and has received also the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, besides being affiliated with the adjunct organization, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was the third to be elected worshipful master of Woodward Lodge, No. 189, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and in his home city he is identified also with the organizations of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Swindall is a member of the Woodward County Bar Association, and in the district of Western Oklahoma he is retained as attorney for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company. He was unanimously selected as a delegate in 1916 to the Republican National Convention at Chicago.
On the 31st of January, 1911, at Guthrie, this state, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Swindall to Miss Emma E. ENDRES, who was born at Macomb, McDonough County, Illinois, on the 19th of September, 1886, the marriage ceremony, at the former territorial capital City of Oklahoma, having been performed by Judge Jesse J. Dunn, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the state. Mrs. Swindall is a daughter of Conrad and Martha Endres, who maintain their home in the City of Wichita, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Swindall have no children. (Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The American Historical Society, 1916).Vol. 5, p. 1906-1907
________
SWINDALL, CHARLES C.
The Bar of the State of Oklahoma claims as one of its leading representatives in Woodward County the well known attorney whose name initiates this paragraph and whose large and important law business extends not only into the various courts of Oklahoma but also into those of the Panhandle of Texas, is wide ramification affording ample voucher for his distinctive ability in his profession and the high estimate placed upon him as a lawyer and citizen.
Mr. Swindall was born at College Mound, Kaufman County, Texas, on the 13th of February, 1876, and is a son of Jonathan W. and Mary E. (STANDLEY) Swindall.
On the homestead farm of his father, in Kaufman County, Texas, Charles Swindall was reared to manhood and in 1895 he was graduated in the high school in the City of Terrell, that county. In the same year he entered Vanderbilt University, in the City of Nashville, Tennessee, and in the law department of this admirable institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1897 and with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. During his senior year he was vice president of the Philomathian Literary Society of the university.
In the year of his graduation Mr. Swindall came to Oklahoma Territory, and in August of that year he arrived at Woodward with the portentous cash capital of $6. He was forthwith admitted to the territorial bar and gallantly opened an office and prepared to serve his strenuous professional novitiate. During the first six months he supplemented the somewhat precarious income derived from his budding law practice by serving as bookkeeper in a newspaper office. On the 1st of April, 1898, he was appointed county attorney of the adjoining County of Day, and at the ensuing popular election he was chosen the regular incumbent of this office, of which he continued in tenure three years and in which he not only gained secure vantage-place as one of the representative lawyers of Western Oklahoma. He continues a close and appreciate student and his law library is the largest and best private collection of its kind in this section of the state.
Mr. Swindall is a staunch and effective advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican Party and is a representative of Woodward County as a member of the Republican State Central Committee. He has completed the circle of York Rite Masonry and has received also the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, besides being affiliated with the adjunct organization, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was the third to be elected worshipful master of Woodward Lodge, No. 189, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and in his home city he is identified also with the organizations of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Swindall is a member of the Woodward County Bar Association, and in the district of Western Oklahoma he is retained as attorney for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company. He was unanimously selected as a delegate in 1916 to the Republican National Convention at Chicago.
On the 31st of January, 1911, at Guthrie, this state, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Swindall to Miss Emma E. ENDRES, who was born at Macomb, McDonough County, Illinois, on the 19th of September, 1886, the marriage ceremony, at the former territorial capital City of Oklahoma, having been performed by Judge Jesse J. Dunn, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the state. Mrs. Swindall is a daughter of Conrad and Martha Endres, who maintain their home in the City of Wichita, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Swindall have no children. (Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The American Historical Society, 1916).Vol. 5, p. 1906-1907
Bio by: RPD2
Family Members
Advertisement
