Swisher was an active member of the West Virginia Democratic Party . In 1900 , he was selected as a candidate for State Superintendent of Free Schools . In the 1902 general election , he ran as the Democratic candidate for the Eleventh District of the West Virginia State Senate . Despite his loss , Swisher received the largest number of Democratic votes ever amassed in Monongalia County up until that time . Swisher was a delegate at the 1936 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , and was selected as an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1912 and 1924
1936 Democratic National Convention
1936 Democratic National Convention
Howard Llewellyn Swisher