Frederic C. Walcott

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Frederic C. Walcott

Frederic Collin Walcott (* 19th February 1869 in New York Mills , Oneida County , New York ; †  27. April 1949 in Stamford , Connecticut ) was an American politician of the Republican Party , of the state of Connecticut in the US Senate represented.

After attending public school in Utica Frederic Walcott graduated from two secondary schools in Lawrenceville ( New Jersey ) and Andover ( Massachusetts ) before he attended the 1891 Yale University graduate. In 1907 he moved to New York City , where he worked as a cotton clothing manufacturer and in banking. He continued to cultivate the business relationships established there after moving to Norfolk (Connecticut).

During the First World War , Walcott worked for the Federal Food Agency. From 1923 to 1928 he was President of the State Fisheries and Game Inspectorate, and from 1925 to 1928 Chairman of the Connecticut Water Commission.

His first political mandate he received in 1925 with the election to the Connecticut Senate , of which he was a member until 1929; from 1927 he was pro tempore president there . From March 4, 1929 he was a member of the US Senate. After he was denied re-election in 1934, his term in Washington ended on January 3, 1935. He then returned to Connecticut, where he was state welfare commissioner (until 1939). From 1941 to 1948 he served on the governing body of the Smithsonian Institution .

Cape Walcott is named after him in the Antarctic .

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SURNAME Walcott, Frederic C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walcott, Frederic Collin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH New York Mills , New York
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1949
Place of death Stamford , Connecticut