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Senate Years of Service: 1929-1935 Party: Republican
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WALCOTT, 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.
BibliographyWalcott, 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.
War1916. London: Privately printed, 1916.
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