Stuyvesant Wainwright

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Stuyvesant Wainwright

Stuyvesant Wainwright II (born March 16, 1921 in New York City , † March 6, 2010 in East Hampton , New York ) was an American officer in the United States Army , lawyer and politician . Between 1953 and 1961 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Stuyvesant Wainwright II was born about two years after the end of World War I in New York City and spent the first few years there. His family then moved to East Hampton in 1927. He graduated from the Westminster School in Simsbury ( Connecticut ). As World War II gained traction, he began his law degree at Yale University . When he reached the age of 20, however, he interrupted his studies and signed up on January 30, 1942 as a private in the US Army. He attended an officer's school . On December 30, 1943, he then went overseas, where he rose to become the commanding officer of the OSS units in the first US Army . He returned to the United States on June 10, 1945, where he spent the last three months of his tenure as an Advisor for Intelligence Coordination at the Department of War in Washington, DC . On December 13, 1945, he was dismissed with the rank of captain . He remained in the Active Army Reserve as a Lieutenant Colonel . After his discharge from the US Army, he resumed his law studies and graduated from Yale University Law School in 1947 . He was admitted to the bar in 1948 and then began practicing in New York City. Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . In the 1952 congressional election , Wainwright was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington DC in the first constituency of New York, where he succeeded Ernest Greenwood on January 4, 1953 . He was re-elected three times in a row. On his fifth nomination in 1960 but he suffered a defeat and withdrew from the after January 3, 1961 Congress of. During this time he taught political science at Rutgers University in 1960 and 1961 . He then resumed his practice as a lawyer. He was also President of Miltope Corporation from 1975 to 1979 and Director of Miltope Corporation from 1975 to 1985 . He died on March 6, 2010 in East Hampton.

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SURNAME Wainwright, Stuyvesant
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wainwright, Stuyvesant II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Army officer, lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2010
Place of death East Hampton , New York