soldier
Joseph Gardner Swift.
Superintendent of the United States Military Academy (1783-1865)
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About Joseph Gardner Swift
Joseph Gardner Swift was an American soldier who, in 1802, became the first graduate of the newly instituted United States Military Academy in West Point, New York; he would later serve as its third superintendent from 1812 to 1814, and as chief of engineers of the United States Army from 1812 to 1818. In 1814, Swift was elected as member of the American Philosophical Society.
Everything about Joseph Gardner Swift →- Occupation
- soldier, engineer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- December 31, 1783
- Died
- July 22, 1865