Swift (September 6, 1913 – October 8, 1970) was an American minister from Southern California who was known for his white supremacist views and was a central figure in the Christian Identity movement from the 1940s until his death in 1970.

Bible College (now Life Pacific University) at the Angelus Temple, Aimee Semple McPherson's Pentecostal Foursquare Church, during the 1930s.

[1][4][5][6] Swift's wife, Genevieve, told interviewers that he was introduced to British Israelism by Gerald Burton Winrod, an evangelist from Kansas, who was a speaker at Angelus Temple.

[9] In a December 1932 Los Angeles Times news story, it was reported that Swift foiled an attempt to kidnap his wife.

[14] In 1946, while living in Lancaster, California, Swift was taken in for questioning by police in connection to a cross burning near San Bernardino.

[9] Wesley Swift was billed as a speaker at the Little Rock Nine protests, but did not speak and instead served as one of the hooded klansmen escorting and protecting Gerald Smith during one of his speeches.

[17] "Swift pioneered a particularly insidious form" of racism which became "the most distinctive element" of Christian Identity theology: the belief that non-whites and Jews are the "biological offspring" of Satan (the serpent).

[18] Swift combined the two-seed-line teaching of British Israelism with Russel Kelso Carter's theory about the sexual nature of Eve's sin in the Garden of Eden.

You teach them to worship the right God and you set them free… He says He will go to the end of the earth and that eventually, all of these people, all of them, shall be saved and justified according to His purpose and His plan.

"[1] Swift deviated from traditional British Israelite thought by associating God's "divine covenant" with a race, rather than a nation.

Key figures who assisted Swift included Connie Lynch, a fellow KKK recruiter, Oren Petito, a neo-Nazi, and Neuman Britton.

Smith also assisted Swift by organizing speaking tours and conventions for British Israelite and white supremacist communities during the 1940s and 1950s.

[30] William Branham, who was influenced by Swift's teachings, re-branded elements of Christian Identity as the "Serpent Seed" and from 1958, he spread it among his followers.

[4] Butler built on Swift's teachings to build what he called a "white bastion" in Hayden Lake, Idaho.

[1] Swift collapsed and died of a heart attack in a Mexican clinic on October 8, 1970, while he was waiting to receive treatment for kidney disease and diabetes.