Michael Scott Swisher was born in Stillwater, Minnesota. He attended Vanderbilt University and the University of Minnesota.
He has worked as the Director of the First State Bank & Trust since 1999, the Director of Universal Financial Services since 1991 and as the Director of the Valley Agencies, Inc., since 1991. He currently serves as their Chairman.
Memberships
Colonial Order of the Acorn
Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
General Society of Colonial Wars
National Society of Americans of Royal Descent
One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal
National Order of Knights of the Golden Horseshoe (Treasurer General)
Order of the Three Crusades 1096-1192 (Treasurer General)
Order of the Crown of Charlemagne (Treasurer General)
Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Treasurer General)
Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Treasurer General)
Order of Indian Wars of the United States (Past Commander)
National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Honorary Governor General)
Sons of Colonial New England (Honorary Governor General)
Hereditary Order of Descendants of Loyalists and Patriots of the American Revolution (Honorary Governor General)
National Society Sons of American Colonists (Honorary Governor General)
National Society Sons of the American Revolution (past President, MN Society)
General Society, Sons of the Revolution (past President, MN Society)
General Society of the War of 1812 (past President, MN Society)
Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion
Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
Society of Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
National Gavel Society
Order of Founders and Patriots of America
Military Order of the Crusades
Order of the First Families of Maine
Order of the First Families of New Hampshire
Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Order of the Norman Conquest
National Guild of St. Margaret
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Military Order of the Stars and Bars
National Order of the Blue and Gray
National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters
Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar
Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America
Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva
Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen
Registry of Infamous and Famous Relatives in American Families
National Society of Saints and Sinners
Hereditary Society of Teachers
Order of the House of Wessex
Order of Alba
Descendants of Templar Knights
Chivalric
Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem
Knight Commander, Ordo Sancti Constantini Magni
Grand Cross, Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem
Civic/Charitable
Chairman, Religion and Society Foundation
Director, the Lakeview Hospital Foundation
Secretary, the John Quincy Adams Foundation
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Helen Keller Sight Award, Minnesota Lions Eye Bank
Member, Advisory Council of the Hereditary Society Community of the USA
Kentucky Colonel
Social and fraternal
University Club of Saint Paul, Minnesota
University Club of San Francisco, California
The Arts Club of Washington, D.C.
St. John’s Lodge No. 1, A.F. & A.M., Stillwater, Minnesota
St. Paul Lodge No. 3, A.F, & A.M., St. Paul, Minnesota
Prometheus Lodge No. 851, F. & A.M., California
The Morgan Lodge No. 9816, E.C., Malvern, Worcestershire
York Rite Bodies, St. Paul & Minneapolis
Scottish Rite (32º), Valley of Minneapolis
Stillwater, Minnesota Lions Club
Rolls Royce Owners’ Club
Morgan Sports Car Club
Listings
The Social Register, 1999 – present
Marquis Who’s Who in America, 2018