page_title: Joseph Gardner Swift
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph Gardner Swift
caption_attribution_description: English: Colonel Joseph Gardner Swift (1783-1865); first graduate of the United States Military Academy, 1802; Chief Engineer of the Army, 1812-1818.
context_page_description: Joseph Gardner Swift was an American soldier who, in 1802, became the first graduate of the newly instituted United States Military Academy in West Point, New York; he would later serve as its fourth Superintendent from 1812 to 1814, and as Chief of Engineers of the United States Army from 1812 to 1818.
context_section_description: Joseph Gardner Swift (December 31, 1783 – July 22, 1865) was an American soldier who, in 1802, became the first graduate of the newly instituted United States Military Academy in West Point, New York; he would later serve as its fourth Superintendent from 1812 to 1814, and as Chief of Engineers of the United States Army from 1812 to 1818.
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