{{short description|American teacher, accountant, and politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{infobox officeholder | name = Guy Jacob Swope | image = Guy J. Swope.jpg | caption = Swope, c. 1944 | office1 = Acting [[Governor of Puerto Rico]] | term_start1 = February | term_end1 = August 1941 | president1 = [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] | predecessor1 = [[José Miguel Gallardo]] (acting) | successor1 = José Miguel Gallardo (acting) | state2 = [[Pennsylvania]] | district2 = [[Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district|19th]] | term_start2 = January 3, 1937 | term_end2 = January 3, 1939 | preceded2 = [[Isaac H. Doutrich]] | succeeded2 = [[John C. Kunkel]] | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1892|12|26}} | birth_place = Meckville, [[Berks County, Pennsylvania]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1969|7|25|1892|12|26}} | death_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S. | profession = [[teacher]], [[accountant]] | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | alma_mater = [[Kutztown University of Pennsylvania|Keystone State Teachers College]] <br> [[Columbia University|Columbia University School of International Affairs]] | image_size = 160 }} '''Guy Jacob Swope''' (December 26, 1892 – July 25, 1969) was an American [[teacher]], [[accountant]], and [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]ic [[politician]]. His career included one term as a representative in the [[77th United States Congress]], serving as a director in the [[United States Department of Interior]] under [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], and serving for a brief period as acting [[governor of Puerto Rico]] in 1941. He also served in the [[United States Naval Reserve]], Military Government Branch, where he attained the rank of [[Commander]].
Swope was born in Meckville, [[Berks County, Pennsylvania]] and studied in [[Kutztown University of Pennsylvania|Keystone State Teachers College]] and [[Columbia University|Columbia University School of International Affairs]]. After graduation, he first worked as a teacher in [[Lebanon County, Pennsylvania]] and later as an agent for the [[Internal Revenue Service]]. In 1935, he became the budgetary secretary for [[Pennsylvania]] and served in that position for two years before being elected to congress in 1936. He failed to win re-election in 1938.
He was made auditor of Puerto Rico in 1940 and served in that capacity for only a year before being appointed acting Governor. He only worked as governor for less than a year before becoming a Director in the [[Division of Territories and Island Possessions]] for the Department of the Interior.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001127|title=SWOPE, Guy Jacob - Biographical Information|website=bioguide.congress.gov}}</ref>
During the [[Second World War]], he joined the United States Naval Reserve. After the war, he was a civilian chief of the [[National Government Division]] in [[Tokyo]], Japan and later as an assistant to the [[Allied-occupied Germany#Military governors and commissioners|American High Commissioner in Germany]].
After the war, Swope returned to political life with a failed bid for re-election to Congress in 1956, but he was appointed Deputy [[Pennsylvania Treasurer|State Treasurer]] of Pennsylvania from 1961 until his retirement in 1965.
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