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Ross Swimmer
Former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (born )
Ross O. Swimmer (born October 26, )[1] served as the Special Trustee for American Indians at the U.S.
Department of the Interior from to [2][3] He was formerly the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. He is a Republican.[4]
Education
Swimmer attended the University of Oklahoma,[5] where he received both his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees.[2] While there, he was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity.
Career
He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and served as Principal Chief[2] from to , when he resigned to accept the position of Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a bureau within the U.S.
Department of the Interior. Wilma Mankiller, Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation succeeded Swimmer as Chief of the Cherokees. In , he visited East Germany, resulting in excitement as the East-Ger