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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ConnecticutFrederic Collin WALCOTT
(1869-1949)
Senate Years of Service:
1929-1935Party: RepublicanWALCOTT, Frederic Collin,
a Senator from Connecticut; born in New York Mills, Oneida County,
N.Y., February 19, 1869; attended the public schools of Utica,
N.Y.; graduated from Lawrenceville (N.J.) School in 1886, from
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in 1887, and from Yale University
in 1891; moved to New York City in 1907 and engaged in the
manufacture of cotton cloth and in banking; moved to Norfolk,
Conn., in 1910, but continued his business connections in New York
City; during the First World War served with the United States Food
Administration; president of the Connecticut Board of Fisheries and
Game 1923-1928; chairman of the Connecticut Water Commission
1925-1928; member, State senate 1925-1929, serving as president pro
tempore 1927-1929; elected as a Republican to the United States
Senate and served from March 4, 1929, to January 3, 1935;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934; commissioner of
welfare of Connecticut 1935-1939; member of the advisory committee
of the Human Welfare Group of Yale University 1920-1948; regent of
the Smithsonian Institution 1941-1948; died in Stamford, Conn., on
April 27, 1949; interment in Center Cemetery, Norfolk, Conn.
Bibliography
Walcott, Frederic C. “Private Game Preserves.” In
Wild Life Conservation in Theory and Practice, by William T.
Hornaday, pp. 195-229. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1914;
Walcott, Frederic C. War—1916. London: Privately
printed, 1916.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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