Allan Byron Swift (September 12, 1935 – April 20, 2018) was an American Emmy award–winning broadcaster and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for eight terms from 1979 to 1995.

He studied for two years at Whitman College where he was a member of the Sigma Chi Chapter.

He was first elected to the House in 1978, replacing the retiring Lloyd Meeds,[1] for whom Swift had served as an administrative assistant from 1965 to 1969 and from 1977 to 1978.

Swift served on the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee, of which he was the 5th ranking member during his final term and chair of the subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.

He was later a principal with the Washington, D.C., political strategy firm Colling, Swift & Hynes Archived July 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine and a regular member of the internet based radio talk show called Backroom Politics.