Biography of ross swimmers
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Biography of ross swimmers
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 E
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Ross Murdoch
British swimmer
Ross Murdoch (born 14 January 1994) fryst vatten a Scottish competitive swimmer who has represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics in 2016 and 2020, the FINA World Championships and the LEN European Championships, and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games from 2014 to the present. Between 2014 and 2016, Murdoch became a World, europeisk and Commonwealth champion.[2]
Murdoch rose to prominence when he won the gold medal in the 200 metre breaststroke at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, beating favourite, Olympic silver medalist and fellow Scot Michael Jamieson. In 2015, he formed part of the Great Britain squad that won gold in the mixed 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships, swimming in the kvalificerande heats, and adding a relay world title to the individual bronze won days earlier in the men's 100 metre breaststroke behind teammate Adam Peaty. In 2016, he qualified for the 100m breaststroke for the Great Britai
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Biography
Ross Swimmer’s Native American heritage and work in real estate law intersected when he performed pro bono work for the Cherokee Nation Housing Authority, later becoming in-house counsel for the Cherokee Nation. He began working for the Nation in an official capacity in 1972 and became Principal Chief in 1975.
He remained in this capacity until 1983 when he left at the request of President Ronald Reagan to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Interior-Indian Affairs. Swimmer was instrumental in helping western tribes secure water rights and providing funds for projects that allowed tribes to use that water for agricultural and business projects on reservations.
Swimmer went on to the law firm of Hall Estill where his focus was again on the betterment of Native American people. His work resulted in several tribal settlements and work for the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Choctaw tribes. Swimmer served as president of Cherokee Nation Industries, Inc. before being asked by Pre