Claude Augustus Swanson (March 31, 1862 – July 7, 1939) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Virginia. He served as U.S. Representative...

Assistant Secretary of the Navy, then as Secretary on January 2, 1940, Claude A. Swanson having died several months previously. Edison himself only kept the...

days in jail and a fine of $10. Only a month later, their petition for executive clemency was granted by Governor Claude A. Swanson, restoring their political...

assigned a fleet command in retaliation. Leahy, on his part, continued Standley's efforts to insert the CNO into the ship design process. Swanson's ill health...

and leader of the Democratic Party in Virginia for four decades as head of a political faction that became known as the Byrd Organization. Byrd served...

independent platform, Montague solidly defeated Martin's candidate, Claude A. Swanson, for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Virginia. Montague won 58...

1933. Byrd had been appointed to fill the vacancy left by Claude A. Swanson after Swanson became the U.S. Secretary of the Navy earlier in the year....

out strongly in favor of the larger weapon. In a two-page letter to Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson and indirectly to Roosevelt, Reeves argued that...

founder of Swanson Charles Edward Swanson (1879–1970), American politician Claude A. Swanson (1862–1939), American lawyer and politician David Swanson, American...

governor Claude A. Swanson who established the community's post office. Local business include a cafe opened by lifelong resident Harold E. Slate and a number...

On 6 September, she embarked United States Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson, for an inspection of the Navy in the Pacific. Indianapolis toured...

USS Swanson (DD-443) was a Gleaves-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson (1862–1939). She participated...

Virginia's method of execution to the electric chair, signed by Governor Claude A. Swanson on March 16, 1908, and became effective starting July 1. The prison's...

covered World War I for The New York Times Iris Kelso, journalist Claude A. Swanson, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Virginia...

the declining health of Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson. Standley represented the United States as a delegate to the London Naval Conference between...

after a decision by the Oklahoma Supreme Court overturned the election in 1911. The county was named for Claude A. Swanson, Governor of Virginia and a friend...

p. 1655. "Claude Augustus Swanson". National Governors Association. Retrieved July 18, 2023. "Governor C. A. Swanson Takes Office Before a Brilliant Throng"...

Newport News Shipbuilding, sponsored by Lulie Swanson, wife of Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson, and commissioned on 12 May 1938 with Captain Newton...

American sportscaster Claude J. Summers, American literary scholar Claude Surprenant (born 1963), Canadian politician Claude A. Swanson (1862–1939), American...

Naval Reserve Medal was a decoration of the United States Navy which was created by order of Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson on 12 September 1938...

Incumbent Senator Claude A. Swanson was re-elected to a fourth term. This is the most recent U.S. Senate election in Virginia history when a candidate ran...

in 1892. After going from being a lawyer and then a businessman, he was elected mayor of Quincy in 1896 and unelected a year later. Adams married Frances...

Republicans gained a net of two seats from the Democrats, and then an additional two seats through mid-term vacancies thereby reducing Democrats to a 52–44 majority...

in the Senate after former Governor and then-senior U.S. Senator Claude A. Swanson was appointed as U.S. Secretary of the Navy by President Franklin...

was vacant at the beginning of the next Congress until April 1, 1929, when a Republican was appointed to continue the term. Two Republicans and one Democrat...

Member: Claude A. Swanson) Industrial Expositions (Chairman: Henry F. Ashurst; Ranking Member: Elihu Root) Interoceanic Canals (Chairman: James A. O'Gorman;...

Republican majority by a further two seats, with the Democrats and the Farmer Labors picking up another seat each, reducing Republicans to a 51-43-2 majority...

Democrat Claude Swanson, who had been appointed to fill a vacancy. Democrat John W. Daniel died June 29, 1910, and Democrat Claude A. Swanson, a former...

Member: J.C.W. Beckham) Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Claude A. Swanson; Ranking Member: William P. Dillingham) Expenditures in the Post Office...

to May 1936, as aide to the Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable Claude A. Swanson. He assumed command of the battleship USS New Mexico, flagship of...