Frederic C. Walcott

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

After attending public school in Utica Frederic Walcott graduated from two secondary schools in Lawrenceville (New Jersey) and Andover (Massachusetts ) before he graduated in 1891 at Yale University. In 1907 he moved to New York City where he worked as a producer of cotton clothes and in banking. The built there business he used even after his move to Norfolk ( Connecticut ) on.

During the First World War Walcott worked for the federal agency for food. From 1923 to 1928 he was president of the state fisheries and wildlife Supervisory Authority, 1925-1928 also chairman of the Water Commission of Connecticut.

He received his first political office in 1925 with his election to the Senate from Connecticut, where he remained until 1929; from 1927 he was there, the President pro tempore. As of March 4, 1929, he was a member of the U.S. Senate. After he was denied re-election in 1934, ended his term in Washington on 3 January 1935. Afterwards, he returned to Connecticut, where he was state welfare commissioner ( until 1939 ). From 1941 to 1948 he was a member of the executive of the Smithsonian Institution.