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A year later he was the party's candidate for Bloemfontein West in the Provincial Council election. In he stood as NP candidate for Ladybrand in the parliamentary election and won the seat. He was to represent this seat for the next fifteen years until he lost it in the election. In the House of Assembly he was chief whip of the party and took part in many important commissions. For instance, in he was a member of the select committee responsible for the drafting of the bill for the iron and steel industry; and between and he was first a member and then the chairperson of the select committee on matters relating to the railways and harbours.

In the years before he became a close associate of E. Hans Strijdom , Prime Minister from to He often spoke in parliament on matters such as the constitutional status of the Union of South Africa, neutrality and secession. He was considered one of a group of able young NP leaders.

Coalition and the resultant fusion between the NP under J. Smuts were totally unacceptable to Swart. In December he and other NP members declared that they would actively oppose fusion. In parliament Swart pleaded for the interests of the farming community. In and he introduced unsuccessful motions to have the right of appeal to the Privy Council in Britain abolished. He joined the organisation after the coalition, partly as he stated in an interview in because the AB tried to save Afrikaner unity. However, with the OB's increasingly reactionary policy and critical attitude towards parliamentarianism, Swart resigned from the organisation because it no longer measured up to his expectations.

After his defeat in the election of Swart continued to play a prominent role in the OFS. After the break between Hertzog and Smuts in over the question of neutrality during the Second World War he, together with men such as H. Strijdom and E. Louw, strongly opposed the reacceptance of Hertzog in the GNP.

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Relations between Swart and Hertzog soured in when rumours started doing the rounds that Hertzog had undertaken to proclaim a British republic in South Africa if Britain should lose the war against Germany. Hertzog held Swart responsible for circulating the rumours. The commission under chairpersonship of J. Joon van Rooy the so-called Afrikaner Unity Committee , which investigated this split in Afrikaner ranks, could not persuade Hertzog to give evidence before it with Swart. In Swart was once again elected as Member of Parliament, this time for the seat of Winburg.

Swart has been described as a particularly able Minister of Justice. From to Swart was also Minister of Education, Arts and Science, and between and he acted in several other portfolios, such as Leader of the House of Assembly and Deputy Prime Minister. During the illness and eventual death of J. He was thus the only person who was Governor-General and State President.

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In he retired to his farm De Aap in the Brandfort district where he lived until his death on 16 July in Bloemfontein. Swart's public career spanned a period of more than 40 years and he left his imprint on the political, cultural and educational terrain and on the press. He was also guardian of a number of organisations and institutions, such as the Voortrekker youth movement and the National Cultural History Museum in Pretoria.