John Augustus Swope (December 25, 1827 – December 6, 1910) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Swope was born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools at Gettysburg and Mount St. Mary’s Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He graduated from Princeton College in 1847 and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, but discontinued the practice of medicine after a few years and engaged in mercantile pursuits in Baltimore, Maryland. He returned to Gettysburg and became president of the Gettysburg National Bank in 1879. He was also engaged in manufacturing and agricultural pursuits.