John R. Swanton

John R. Swanton
Swanton in 1903
Born	(1873-02-19)February 19, 1873 Gardiner, Maine, U.S.
Died	May 2, 1958(1958-05-02) (aged 85) Newton, Massachusetts
Spouse	Alice M. Barnard
Academic background
Alma mater	Harvard University (AB, AM, PhD)
Thesis	The Morphology of the Chinook Verb (1900)
Influences	Frederic Ward Putnam Franz Boas
Academic work
Discipline	Anthropologist
Sub-discipline	Ethnology Folklore Ethnohistory Linguistics
Institutions	Bureau of American Ethnology

John Reed Swanton (February 19, 1873 – May 2, 1958) was an American anthropologist, folklorist, and linguist who worked with Native American peoples throughout the United States. Swanton achieved recognition in the fields of ethnology and ethnohistory. He is particularly noted for his work with indigenous peoples of the Southeast and Pacific Northwest.