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