William Marshall Swayne (December 1, 1828 – May 1, 1918) was an American sculptor and writer who lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
[2][3] At the suggestion of Supreme Court justice Noah Haynes Swayne, he was appointed to the United States Treasury Department by President Abraham Lincoln.
Swayne was a self-taught artist who sculpted many figures from history and from life, including General Anthony Wayne, Salmon P. Chase, Edwin M. Stanton, William H. Seward, Andrew Johnson, Bayard Taylor, General George Meade, Sam Houston, and John Hickman.
Swayne did several sculptures of Lincoln, including a bust of the president while he posed for him and recited poetry to visitors.
The Division of Government, Politics, and Reform at the National Museum of American History (NMAH) houses a copy of Swayne's bust of Abraham Lincoln.