Swanson is home of the Admirals, though the school's namesake, Claude A. Swanson, was Secretary of the Navy, and never an "Admiral."
Claude Monet | Claude Debussy | Claude Lorrain | Gloria Swanson | Claude François | Jean-Claude Van Damme | Claude Lévi-Strauss | Claude Royet-Journoud | Claude Chabrol | Jean-Claude Carrière | Claude Vivier | Claude Shannon | Claude Berri | Jean-Claude Colin | Claude Rains | Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne | Christo and Jeanne-Claude | Kristy Swanson | Jean-Claude Gérard | Claude Lelouch | Claude Jade | Claude Garamond | Claude Bolling | Claude Auchinleck | Jean-Claude Duvalier | Claude Thornhill | Claude Simon | Claude Nicollier | Claude Mollet | Claude Lecouteux |
Robert A. Swanson (1947–1999), co-founder of Genentech, a biotech company
After continuing his studies at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, he became a U.S. Foreign Service officer, serving in the U.S. legation in Beijing from 1927 to 1928 and as vice-consul in Nanjing from 1931 to 1934.
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Shortly before Pearl Harbor in 1941, Buss left USC to become executive assistant to the U.S. High Commissioner in the Philippines, who at this time was Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr..
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Although not formally counted as one of the State Department's "China Hands", he was a U.S. Foreign Service Officer in Peiping and Nanjing prior to the war, and served in multiple U.S. government and policy advisory positions covering East Asia for almost seven decades.
Claude A. Fuller (1876–1968), lawyer, farmer and U.S. Representative from Arkansas
Jon E. Swanson (1942–1971), United States Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient
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John A. Swanson, American engineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist
Clyde T. Ellis, who defeated Claude Fuller in 1938 to become the representative for the third district, envisioned a smaller Arkansas version of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
In 1943, he worked for the firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill until leaving them in 1944 to work for another firm, Saarinen, Swanson, & Associates.
Richard A. Swanson (born 1942) is an American organizational theorist and Distinguished Research Professor of Human Resource Development and the Sam Lindsey Chair at the University of Texas at Tyler (UTT), known for his synthesis work on the financial research related to human resource development.
Swanson released a short work called Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management, thirty three sound-bite rules, including the comparatively well known "Waiter Rule".
William H. Swanson (born 1949), chairman and chief executive officer of Raytheon Company