Benjamin Swift (3 April 1781 – 11 November 1847) was a member of the US House of Representatives (NR-VT 4) from 4 March 1827 to 3 March 1831 (succeeding Ezra Meech and preceding Heman Allen) and a US Senator from 4 March 1833 to 3 March 1839 (succeeding Horatio Seymour and preceding Samuel S. Phelps).
Biography[]
Benjamin Swift was born in Amenia, New York in 1781, and, at the age of five, his family moved to Bennington, New York. He became a lawyer in 1806, and he also engaged in banking and farming after moving to St. Albans. Swift served in the US House of Representatives from 1827 to 1831 and in the US Senate from 1833 to 1839, and he died in 1847.