Swainson, John Burley

Born: 1925 AD
Died: 1994 AD, at 69 years of age.

Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None

US (Canadian-born) judge and Democratic politician

immigrated to US 1927 (naturalized US citizen 1944)

admitted to Michigan bar 1952

lieutenant governor of Michigan 1959-1961

governor of Michigan 1961-1963

associate justice of Michigan supreme court 1970-1977 (inactive from 1975, as focus of criminal proceedings)

indicted 1975 on charges of perjury and bribery conspiracy

convicted of three counts of perjury and sentenced 1976 to sixty days in prison

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