Background
SWINDALL, Charles was born on February 13, 1876 in Terrell, Texas, United States. Son of Jonathan Ward and Mary Elizabeth (Standley) Swindall.
United States representative lawyer politician
SWINDALL, Charles was born on February 13, 1876 in Terrell, Texas, United States. Son of Jonathan Ward and Mary Elizabeth (Standley) Swindall.
Born at College Mound, near Terrell, Texas, Swindall attended the public schools and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He was graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1897.
Charles Swindall was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Woodward, Oklahoma. Swindall was the prosecuting attorney of Day (later Ellis) County 1898-1900. Congressional Service
In the 1916 Republican National Convention, Swindall served as an Oklahoma delegate.
Swindall was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dick T. Morgan, and served from November 2, 1920, to March 3, 1921, serving on the Public Land Committee. Following his unsuccessful bid for renomination to the Sixty-seventh Congress, he returned to his practice in Woodward, Oklahoma. Judicial Service
He was appointed April 26, 1924, judge of the twentieth judicial district of Oklahoma.
Swindall holds the title of the first Oklahoma judge to give a death sentence for committing a robbery with firearms. However, the defendant's sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment. He served as a justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court from 1929 to 1934.
Swindall refused to be partisan in his nominees, preferring to judge candidates on their qualifications, not their loyalty to a particular party. Wanting Swindall to only support Republicans, the Oklahoma State Election Board refused Swindall's renomination to his post. Following his judicial appointments, he resumed the practice of law in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
In 1911 Charles Swindall and Emma Endres were wed. Charles Swindall died of a heart attack on June 19, 1939 in Oklahoma City, and was interred in Memorial Park Cemetery.
Methodist Church.
Member, Legal Advisory Board, Woodward Company during World War. Resigned as District Judge, 1929. Justice, Supreme Court.
Delegate, to Republican National. Convention, 1916; engaged in practice of law. Woodward, Oklahoma, 1897-1924.
Member: Masons; Knights of Pythias. Elks; Modern Woodmen of American. Chamber of Commerce. Club: Kiwanis (Woodward, Oklahoma).
Spouse Emma Eulala Endres, January 31, 1911, Guthrie.