John Swallow
| John Swallow | |
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| 20th Attorney General of Utah | |
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In office January 7, 2013 – December 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Mark Shurtleff |
| Succeeded by | Sean Reyes |
| Member of the Utah House of Representatives from the 51st district |
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In office 1996–2002 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 10, 1962 San Gabriel, California |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Suzanne Seader |
| Children | 5 |
| Residence | Sandy, Utah |
| Alma mater |
Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School |
| Website | johnswallow |
John Swallow (born November 10, 1962) is a Republican politician and former Attorney General of Utah. Just prior, he served as Chief Deputy Attorney General overseeing civil litigation.
Swallow has been a lawyer since 1990 and was a member of the Utah State House of Representatives from 1996 to 2002. In December 2009, John Swallow was appointed Chief Deputy Attorney General for Utah. While serving as Chief Deputy, some of his most prominent projects included the fights to overturn the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and to gain state control of Utah’s federally controlled lands. In November 2012, Swallow won the election for Utah Attorney General with a 64 to 30 percent victory.
On November 21, 2013, Swallow resigned, after less than a year in office, following Federal and State investigations of alleged improprieties on his part. He was later arrested on July 2014, along with his predecessor Mark Shurtleff on corruption charges. On March 2nd, 2017, Swallow was acquitted of all charges.
Swallow said that at age nine, his father was killed "in a stupid accident"; the claim was later questioned. The family moved to live with his maternal grandparents in Juneau, Alaska, for three years. When his mother married Richard Swallow, he moved to Orem, Utah, where he adopted his step-father's last name. The family later moved to Nevada, where Swallow's teenage years were spent on a hay farm.
Swallow served a Spanish-speaking mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Los Angeles, California, where he "learned to speak Spanish with an L.A. accent". He earned an undergraduate degree in psychology and then a law degree from Brigham Young University, where he was a member of the Law Review. In 1985, Swallow married Suzanne Seader; after his graduation they moved to Sandy, a suburb of Salt Lake City. They have five children.
After working as a lawyer for several years, Swallow successfully ran for the Utah House of Representatives in 1996 for a district based in Sandy and continued serving as a State Representative for six consecutive years. While in the legislature, Swallow sponsored the then-largest tax cut in Utah’s history at the time and was named Taxpayer Advocate of the Year by the Utah Taxpayers Association for sponsoring and passing legislation to reduce taxes in Utah.
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