President and CEO of Republic
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Sweet started professional work as Chief Accountant at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Madison, WI., and served in the US Army Air Corps for three years as an Administrative Specialist.
He began his airline career in 1948 as General Accountant for Wisconsin Central in its first year of operations. He was made Assistant Treasurer in 1950 and Secretary-Treasurer in 1954. Sweet was elected a Vice President in 1959, and Vice President-Finance in 1963. He was named Executive Vice President in 1967, and finally President in 1969.
Sweet guided North Central through its most intense period of growth as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1976, and retained that title through the merger with Southern to form Republic Airlines.
Sweet was also a Director of the Air Transportation Association of America, and Vice Chairman of the Board of the Association of Local Transport Airlines. He was a Director at G & K services, Inc., and S.E. Rykoff & Co., and a member of the Minnesota Business Partnership, Inc.
