SWOPE (SWOOPE), John A., a Representative of Huntingdon, Juniata and Mifflin Counties; born, September 18, 1820 in Pennsylvania; private, Company D, 205th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1864-1865, Civil War); laborer; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1865 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1866 term; shoemaker; died, March 4, 1884 in Porter Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania; interred, Grandview Cemetery, Southmont Cambria County, Pennsylvania.