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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

  • 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)

  • 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 (Governor General)

  • Order of Indian Wars of the United States (Commander)

  • National Gavel Society

  • General Society of Colonial Wars 

  • Order of Founders and Patriots of America

  • Colonial Order of the Acorn

  • 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

  • Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York

  • National Order of Knights of the Golden Horseshoe

  • Order of the Crown of Charlemagne

  • National Society of Americans of Royal Descent

  • One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal

  • Military Order of the Crusades

  • Baronial Order of Magna Charta

  • Descendants of Templar Knights

  • Order of Three Crusades

  • Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

  • Order of the Norman Conquest

  • National Guild of St. Margaret

  • Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

  • Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

  • 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

  • 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

  • Society of Descendants of Colonial Clergy

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