Charles Swindells
{{Short description|American diplomat}}
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Charles Joseph "Butch" Swindells (born 1942)[https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/swindells-charles-j Charles J. Swindells (1942–)] is a former United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. He was appointed to the position by U.S. President George W. Bush on June 5 2001 with the strong support of his home state of Oregon's two U.S. Senators.{{cite news
|title=Charles Swindells '64 named ambassador
|url=http://www.lclark.edu/dept/public/swindells.html
|work=The Lewis & Clark Chronicle
|year=2002
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126202129/http://www.lclark.edu/dept/public/swindells.html
|archivedate=2009-01-26
}} He served from 2001 to 2005.
Early Life and Career
Swindells earned a B.S. from Lewis & Clark College in 1964, and served as a trustee there from 1998 to 2001. He also attended Willamette University College of Law. After law school, he went into finance and investing. In 1968, he and law school roommate Jeffrey Grayson founded Capital Consultants together; Swindells left that company in 1985 (and was not involved in the company's financial scandal of the late 1990s).{{cite news
|title= Jeffrey Grayson's checkered career
|work=The Oregonian
|date=April 17, 2002
|title= CLARIFICATION * A PAGE ONE TUESDAY PROFILE OF FORMER CAPITAL CONSULTANTS
|work=The Oregonian
|date=April 24, 2002
}} He later co-founded Capital Trust Co., which became one of the largest trust companies in the Northwest, in 1981.{{cite news
|title= CAPITAL TRUST SLATES MERGER WITH LEXINGTON
|work=The Oregonian
|date=April 21, 1988
|first=DONALD J.
|last=SORENSEN
}}
Swindells has served on the board of directors of Swift Energy Company and The Greenbrier Companies.{{cite news | url=https://people.forbes.com/profile/charles-j-swindells/75911 | work=Forbes | title=Charles J. Swindells Profile - Forbes.com | access-date=2017-08-25 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226063632/http://people.forbes.com/profile/charles-j-swindells/75911 | archive-date=2012-02-26 | url-status=dead }}
See also
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| before=Carol Moseley Braun
| after= William McCormick
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2001–2005
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Category:Businesspeople from Oregon
Category:Ambassadors of the United States to New Zealand
Category:Ambassadors of the United States to Samoa
Category:Willamette University College of Law alumni
Category:Lewis & Clark College alumni
Category:21st-century American diplomats
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