Jesse P. Wolcott, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jesse P. Wolcott

American politician

Date of Birth: 03-Mar-1893

Place of Birth: Gardner, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 28-Jan-1969

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Jesse P. Wolcott

  • Jesse Paine Wolcott (March 3, 1893 – January 28, 1969) was a politician and soldier from the U.S.
  • state of Michigan. Wolcott was born to William Bradford Wolcott and Lillie Betsy (Paine) Wolcott in Gardner, Massachusetts and attended the common and high schools there.
  • After moving to Michigan, he attended the Detroit Technical Institute and graduated from the Detroit College of Law in 1915.
  • He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Detroit.
  • In 1927, he married Grace Sullivan. During the First World War, Wolcott served overseas as a second lieutenant in a machine gun company of the Twenty-sixth Infantry, First Division, from 1917 to 1919.
  • After the war he settled in Port Huron and resumed the practice of law.
  • He served as assistant police judge of Port Huron in 1921, assistant prosecuting attorney of St.
  • Clair County from 1922 to 1926, and prosecuting attorney from 1927 to 1930. In 1930, Wolcott defeated incumbent U.S.
  • Representative Louis C.
  • Cramton in the Republican Party primary elections.
  • He went on to win the general election to be elected from Michigan's 7th congressional district to the 72nd United States Congress, and was subsequently re-elected to the twelve succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1931 to January 3, 1957.
  • He was chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency in the 80th and 83rd Congresses, and of the Joint Committee on Economic Report in the 83rd Congress.
  • He was not a candidate for re-nomination in 1956. In 1958, Jesse Wolcott was appointed a director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation by U.S.
  • President Dwight Eisenhower and served as chairman until January 1964.
  • He was a Universalist or Congregationalist and a member of American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Freemasons, Elks, Knights of Pythias, Lions, Moose, and Odd Fellows.
  • He resided in Chevy Chase, Maryland until his death and is interred in Arlington National Cemetery.

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