Orson Swindle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission
Date of Birth: 08-Mar-1937
Place of Birth: Thomasville, Georgia, United States
Profession: military officer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Orson Swindle
- Orson G.
- Swindle III (born March 8, 1937 in Thomasville, Georgia), a decorated Vietnam War prisoner of war, was a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission of the United States from December 18, 1997 to June 30, 2005.
- He had previously served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce during the Reagan Administration. Swindle previously served as State Director for the U.S.
- Department of Agriculture.
- In 1994 and in 1996 he was a Republican candidate for Congress in Hawaii's 1st Congressional District.
- In 1996 he held the incumbent, Democrat Neil Abercrombie, to 50% of the vote.
- Swindle served over twenty years as a Naval Aviator in the U.S.
- Marine Corps, and he retired as a lieutenant colonel.
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