Christopher Wolcott

Christopher Parsons Wolcott (born December 17, 1820 in Wolcott , Connecticut , † April 4, 1863 in Akron , Ohio ) was an American lawyer and politician of the Republican Party . He was Attorney General of Ohio from 1856 to 1860 and United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1862 to 1863 .

Career

Christopher Wolcott was born in New Haven County about five years after the end of the British-American War . Nothing is known about his childhood. The Wolcott family moved to Ohio in 1833 and settled there in Steubenville ( Jefferson County ) down. He attended public schools there. Then he went to Washington College in Pennsylvania , where he graduated in 1840. He studied law at Tappan & Stanton's law firm in Steubenville. After receiving his license to practice law, he began in Ravenna ( Portage County to practice). There he became a partner of Lucius V. Bierce. His student days were overshadowed by the economic crisis of 1837 and the following years by the Mexican-American War . In 1846 he moved to Akron, Summit County . Wolcott became a partner of William Otis until Otis moved to Cleveland . He then went into a lifelong partnership with William H. Upson.

The governor of Ohio, Salmon P. Chase then in 1856 to fill appointed Wolcott for attorney general of Ohio, to the vacancy caused by the death of Francis D. Kimball was born. At the end of 1856 he was elected Attorney General for a two-year term and was re-elected in 1858. His cases as Attorney General included the Breslin Treasury Defalcation and Wellington Rescue . In this regard, his arguments before the United States Supreme Court became widely known. Governor William Dennison then appointed Wolcott to replace the late John C. Wright in 1861 for the purpose of attending the ongoing peace conference . During the Civil War , in May 1862, U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton , originally from Steubenville and Wolcott's brother-in-law, asked him for help and offered him the position of Deputy Secretary of War:

"I know I ought not to ask it of you, and fear the work will kill you, but I do not know where to look for aid, and if I do not have it now, I must give up myself."

Stanton was right in his testimony. Wolcott's health deteriorated under the pressure of work, so that Wolcott submitted his resignation in February 1863. He then returned to Akron, where he died two months later.

Individual evidence

^ Biographical and Historical Catalog of Washington and Jefferson College , GH Buchanan, 1902, p. 324
^ ^A ^b ^c Samuel Alanson Lane: Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County , Beacon Job Department, 1892, p. 553
^ ^A ^b Joseph Patterson Smith: History of the Republican Party in Ohio , Volume 1, Lewis Publishing Company, 1898, pp. 65, 67, and 84
^ Richard C. Parsons : Magazine of Western History , 1885, pp. 8-15
^ William B. Neff: Bench and Bar of Northern Ohio , Historical publishing Company, 1921, p. 172
^ The Political Register and Congressional Directory , Houghton, Osgood, 1878, p. 232

personal data
SURNAME	Wolcott, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wolcott, Christopher Parsons (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 17, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wolcott , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH	April 4, 1863
Place of death	Akron , Ohio

[1] Biographical and Historical Catalog of Washington and Jefferson College , GH Buchanan, 1902, p. 324

[Lane-2] A ^b ^c Samuel Alanson Lane: Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County , Beacon Job Department, 1892, p. 553

[Smith-3] A ^b Joseph Patterson Smith: History of the Republican Party in Ohio , Volume 1, Lewis Publishing Company, 1898, pp. 65, 67, and 84

[4] Richard C. Parsons : Magazine of Western History , 1885, pp. 8-15

[5] William B. Neff: Bench and Bar of Northern Ohio , Historical publishing Company, 1921, p. 172

[6] The Political Register and Congressional Directory , Houghton, Osgood, 1878, p. 232