lieutenant death_date birth_date term_end alma_mater death_place title profession preceded term_start order spouse image name succeeded predecessor birth_place president jr/sr party office state district successor article_title
james taylor ellyson 7 july 1939 31 march 1862 july 10 , 1910 january 30 , 1906 7 , 1939 march 4 , 1933 february virginia virginia agricultural and mechanical college randolph-macon college university of rapidan camp , virginia , u.s. united states secretary of the navy politician , lawyer , teacher john w. daniel posey g. lester march 1 , 1906 march 4 , 1893 5 , 1933 august 1 , 1910 february 45th 45th elizabeth deane lyons claude augustus swanson.jpg claude augustus swanson harry f. byrd edward w. saunders charles f. adams iii andrew j. montague swansonville , virginia , u.s. franklin d. roosevelt senator democrat governor of virginia virginia virginia 5th charles edison william h. mann claude a. swanson

claude a. swanson

claude augustus swanson -lrb- march 31 , 1862july 7 , 1939 -rrb- was an american lawyer and democratic politician from virginia .
he served seven terms in the u.s. house of representatives , from 1893 until 1906 , was the 45th governor of virginia from 1906 until 1910 , and represented virginia as a united states senator from 1910 until 1933 .
swanson lived most of his life at his estate `` eldon '' in pittsylvania county , virginia , built by the whittle family for whom chatham 's whittle street is named .
he was secretary of the navy under franklin d. roosevelt from 1933 until his death in 1939 , at herbert hoover 's rapidan camp -lrb- which was then available for use by the roosevelt administration -rrb- at age 77 .
