Later Career
Despite his court martial, Swift was promoted to rear admiral on January 30, 1908. Swift retired on March 17, 1908, but acted as an adviser to the Secretary on navy yard and industrial affairs. In December 1909, he was assigned to the Naval Bureau of Materials and was appointed by Secretary of the Navy George von Lengerke Meyer to head the so-called "Swift Board" to reorganize the Department of the Navy.
Admiral Swift died at the Naval Hospital in Newport, Rhode Island on June 30, 1919, and was buried in his home town of Richfield Springs, New York.
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