serviceyears branch death_date allegiance birth_date term_end restingplace death_place battles term_start rank image name predecessor birth_place unit state district successor article_title
1917 & ndash ; 1919 united states army 6 august 1936 usa united states of america may 1 , 1875 august 6 , 1936 springwood cemetery columbia , south carolina first world war march 4 , 1921 captain john jackson mcswain.jpg john jackson mcswain samuel j. nicholls cross hill , south carolina 154th infantry south carolina 4th gabriel h. mahon , jr. . john j. mcswain

john j. mcswain

john jackson mcswain -lrb- may 1 , 1875 - august 6 , 1936 -rrb- was a u.s. representative from south carolina .
born on a farm near cross hill , south carolina , mcswain attended the public schools .
he graduated from wofford college fitting school in 1893 and from the university of south carolina at columbia in 1897 .
he taught school in marlboro , abbeville , and anderson counties .
he studied law .
he was admitted to the bar in 1901 and commenced practice in greenville , south carolina .
he served as a referee in bankruptcy from 1912-1917 .
he entered the officers ' training camp at fort oglethorpe , georgia , may 12 , 1917 , and served in the first world war as captain of company a , one hundred and fifty-fourth infantry , until march 6 , 1919 , when he was honorably discharged .
he resumed the practice of law in greenville , south carolina .
mcswain was elected as a democrat to the sixty-seventh and to the seven succeeding congresses and served from march 4 , 1921 , until his death .
he served as chairman of the committee on military affairs -lrb- seventy-second through seventy-fourth congresses -rrb- .
he declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1936 .
he died in columbia , south carolina , on august 6 , 1936 .
he was interred in springwood cemetery , greenville , south carolina .
