Born at Salt Rock in 1887, Claude Vilas Swann operated a well-known Huntington plumbing and heating company for a number of years. A Democrat, he served three terms in the House of Delegates and was Huntington’s mayor in 1941-42.
Swann was a charter member of the Baptist Temple, a member of the Temple’s building committee and chairman of its board of trustees for many years.
Because of failing health, Swann ended his political career in 1944 after his last term in the Legislature. Later he moved to Gallipolis, Ohio, where he lived in semi-retirement.
He died in 1959.
