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'''Lawson Lewis Swearingen, Jr.''' (born May 27, 1944), is a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] former state senator for District 34 in Ouachita Parish, [[Louisiana]], whose service extended from 1980 to 1991,<ref name=senate>{{cite web|url=http://www.senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/Documents/SenateMembership1880ForwardRevisedMar2011.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana Seate 1880 - Present|publisher=Louisiana State Seante|date=January 2012|accessdate=October 27, 2019}}</ref> and a former president of the[University of Louisiana at [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], whose tenure extended from 1991 through 2001.
'''Lawson Lewis Swearingen, Jr.''' (born May 27, 1944), is a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] former state senator for District 34 in Ouachita Parish, [[Louisiana]], whose service extended from 1980 to 1991,<ref name=senate>{{cite web|url=http://www.senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/Documents/SenateMembership1880ForwardRevisedMar2011.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana Seate 1880 - Present|publisher=Louisiana State Seante|date=January 2012|accessdate=October 27, 2019}}</ref> and a former president of the University of Louisiana at [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] from 1991 through 2001.
==Background==
==Background==
Swearingen, Jr., was reared in Ruston and graduated in 1962 from Ruston High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966 in the field of government from ULM, known at the time as Northeast Louisiana State College. He also excelled in college [[basketball]] under the popular coach Leonard O'Neil "Lenny" Fant (1923-1998).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bayou.com/~suelynn/obituaries/lofobit.html|author=Mark S. Rainwater|title=Fant's legacy lives on in 'his boys'|date= October 13, 1998|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=January 3, 2010}}</ref> In 1969, Swearingen received his [[Juris Doctor]]ate degree from [[Tulane University]] Law School in [[New Orleans]]. He then practiced law for twenty-two years in Monroe while he also served as a state senator.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.123people.com/ext/frm?ti=person%20finder&search_term=cherrie%20walker&search_country=US&st=person%20finder&target_url=http%3A%2F%2Flrd.yahooapis.com%2F_ylc%3DX3oDMTVnZmI1dDc1BF9TAzIwMjMxNTI3MDIEYXBwaWQDc1k3Wlo2clYzNEhSZm5ZdGVmcmkzRUx4VG5makpERG5QOWVKV1NGSkJHcTJ1V1dFa0xVdm5IYnNBeUNyVkd5Y2REVElUX2tlBGNsaWVudANib3NzBHNlcnZpY2UDQk9TUwRzbGsDdGl0bGUEc3JjcHZpZAMxNG03NVdLSWNycFFiQm5VckJ1bnVvNXVXODV4V1V0T21aQUFEbV9B%2FSIG%3D11dt50tr4%2F**http%253A%2F%2Fwww.ulm.edu%2Fthebayou%2Fthebayou.pdf§ion=biography&wrt_id=110|title=’’The Bayou: The History and Traditions of the University of Louisiana at Monroe’’|publisher=123people.com|accessdate=January 14, 2010}}</ref>
Swearingen, Jr., was reared in Ruston and graduated in 1962 from Ruston High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966 in the field of government from ULM, known at the time as Northeast Louisiana State College. He also excelled in college [[basketball]] under the popular coach Leonard O'Neil "Lenny" Fant (1923-1998).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bayou.com/~suelynn/obituaries/lofobit.html|author=Mark S. Rainwater|title=Fant's legacy lives on in 'his boys'|date= October 13, 1998|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=January 3, 2010}}</ref> In 1969, Swearingen received his [[Juris Doctor]]ate degree from [[Tulane University]] Law School in [[New Orleans]]. He then practiced law for twenty-two years in Monroe while he also served as a state senator.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.123people.com/ext/frm?ti=person%20finder&search_term=cherrie%20walker&search_country=US&st=person%20finder&target_url=http%3A%2F%2Flrd.yahooapis.com%2F_ylc%3DX3oDMTVnZmI1dDc1BF9TAzIwMjMxNTI3MDIEYXBwaWQDc1k3Wlo2clYzNEhSZm5ZdGVmcmkzRUx4VG5makpERG5QOWVKV1NGSkJHcTJ1V1dFa0xVdm5IYnNBeUNyVkd5Y2REVElUX2tlBGNsaWVudANib3NzBHNlcnZpY2UDQk9TUwRzbGsDdGl0bGUEc3JjcHZpZAMxNG03NVdLSWNycFFiQm5VckJ1bnVvNXVXODV4V1V0T21aQUFEbV9B%2FSIG%3D11dt50tr4%2F**http%253A%2F%2Fwww.ulm.edu%2Fthebayou%2Fthebayou.pdf§ion=biography&wrt_id=110|title=’’The Bayou: The History and Traditions of the University of Louisiana at Monroe’’|publisher=123people.com|accessdate=January 14, 2010}}</ref>
==Career==
==Career==
===Louisiana State Senate===
====Louisiana State Senate===
Swearingen was elected to the Senate in 1979 to succeed Democrat Henry Lawrence Gibbs, Jr. (1919–1993). In his third and last election to the state senate in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 24, 1987, Swearingen easily defeated the [[real estate]] figure and fellow Democrat [[Fred Huenefeld]], also of Monroe, 26,087 (77.6 percent) to 7,521 (22.4 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref>
Swearingen was elected to the Senate in 1979 to succeed Democrat Henry Lawrence Gibbs, Jr. (1919–1993). In his third and last election to the state senate in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 24, 1987, Swearingen easily defeated the [[real estate]] figure and fellow Democrat [[Fred Huenefeld]], also of Monroe, 26,087 (77.6 percent) to 7,521 (22.4 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref>