The Legislature has honored John “Jack” Swift, a World War II veteran and Georgetown resident who passed away Jan. 5 at age 90.

After graduating Trinity College in 1942, Swift served in the Army Air Force in the Pacific theater during World War II. He was discharged as a captain in 1946.

He married Frances Ellen Norton, with whom he had three children.

Swift graduated Yale University in 1948 and worked as an engineer, planner and manager on civil engineering, environmental research and energy development projects in the United States and abroad from 1948 to 1998.

He summered in Georgetown at his grandparents’ cottage in the 1920s and ’30s; he and his family continued to vacation there. In 1980, they built a house at Bay Point, becoming full-time residents of Georgetown in 1982.

He served on the Georgetown Financial Advisory Committee and the Georgetown Board of Appeals, and represented Georgetown on the Sagadahoc County Budget Advisory Committee. He was president of the Georgetown Historical Society in the late 1990s, a leader of the GHS Building and Capital Campaigns, and a researcher of Georgetown history. In 2007, he was named Georgetown’s Citizen of the Year.