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David Lowry Swain (1801-1868)

David Lowry Swain

D. L. Swain

David Lowry Swain (1801-1868) was Governor of North Carolina from 1832 to 1835 and President of the University of North Carolina from 1835 until 1868. Original portrait, by William G. Browne, property of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies Foundation, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.