| William Swan Garvin | |
| State: | Pennsylvania |
| District: | 22nd |
| Term Start: | March 4, 1845 |
| Term End: | March 3, 1847 |
| Preceded: | Samuel Hays |
| Succeeded: | John Wilson Farrelly |
| Birth Date: | 25 July 1806 |
| Birth Place: | Mercer, Pennsylvania |
| Restingplace: | Mercer Citizens’ Cemetery, Mercer, Pennsylvania |
| Party: | Jacksonian |
| Otherparty: | Democratic |
| Occupation: | Newspaper proprietor, postmaster, flour inspector |
William Swan Garvin (July 25, 1806 – February 20, 1883) was a western Pennsylvania newspaper proprietor who is most widely known for his term as a Jacksonian and Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Garvin was born in Mercer, Pennsylvania. At 13, he became an apprentice for Mercer County's Western Press, a Democratic newspaper.
After journeying as a newspaper printer, in 1830 he returned to the Western Press as its proprietor, a position he held off and on for the rest of his life.
Garvin was postmaster of Mercer from 1837 to 1841.
Garvin was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings during that session.
He also served as a flour inspector in Pittsburgh and was again appointed postmaster of Mercer in 1867 and served until 1869.
Garvin died on February 20, 1883, and was buried in Mercer Citizens’ Cemetery.