Frederic Collin Walcott (S&B 1891)
Republican. Politician. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Psi Upsilon. Chevalier Legion of Honor (France) and officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland)
Chairman board of trustees, The Jane Coffin, Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research, trustee Trinity College, Connecticut College, Bethune Cookman College, American Geographical Society, NewYork Zoological Society (received annualaward), Walcott Memorial PresbyterianChurch (New York Mills); director New York Kindergarten Association, Gaylord Farm Association, and Phillips Academy;associated with New York Museum of Natural History and leader field expedition to the Andes of Peru; president American Wildlife Foundation and on advisory Council of Natural Preserve, Honorary member Wildlife Society; Chairman Class reunion committees 1891 to 1948, Regent Smithsonian Institution; on executive committee Carnegie Institution of Washington, a founder American Game Association, member Congregational church, Norfolk.[2]
1941 to 1948 - Regent of the Smithsonian Institution.[2]
1940, Published ‘The Romance of the Food Administration’ and co-author Wild Life Conservation.[2]
1939, delegate to Poland to aid in alleviation of suffering after German invasion.
1938, Relief administrator in Spain
1935 to 1939 - Commissioner of Welfare of Connecticut.[2]
4 Mar 1929 to 3 Jan 1935 - United States Senator from Connecticut. Instrumental in obtaining passage Duck Stamp Act.
1927 to 1929 - Served as President Pro Tempore to President Calvin Coolidge (Relative Joseph Coolidge, was a partner of Russell and Co.[William Huntingdon Russell co-founded S&B].[2]
1925 to 1929 - Member of the Connecticut Senate.[2]
1925 to 1928 - Chairman of the Connecticut Water Commission.[2]
1923 to 1928 - President of the Connecticut Board of Fisheries and Game.[2]
1920 to 1948, Member of the advisory committee of the Human Welfare Group of Yale University.
1919, Representative to Paris Peace Conference as expert on Polish relief needs.[2]
1918, in France and Italy negotiating war loans.[2]
WW1 - 1917 to 1919 - Walcott served with the United States Food Administration as assistant to Director, Herbert Hoover (Bohemian).[2]
1915 to 1916 - Representative Rockefeller Foundation to investigate conditions in Belgium and Poland.[2]
1909 to 1918 - Partner William Bonbright & Company.[2]
1907 to 1909 - Vice-President Knickerbocker Trust Company.[2]
Note: Panic of 1907, started with J.P.Morgan spreading rumours about a competitor, the Knickbocker Trust Company, one of the largest financial institutions at the time.[4]
1907 to 1915 - Investment Banker and manufacturer in New York City.[2]
14 Feb 1899 - Married Frances Dana Archbold. Died the same year.
1891 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.
Died 27 Apr 1949, from arteriosclerosis. Age 80.
Note:
William H. Welch’s (S&B 1870 Note: President of AMA and Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research) - nephew of Sen. Frederic Collin Walcott (S&B 1891)
Frederick Collin (S&B 1871) - William H. Welch’s cousin William Welch Collin (S&B 1877) - William H. Welch’s cousin William Stuart Walcott (S&B 1894)** - William H. Welch’s nephew
William Welch Kellogg (S&B 1939) - nephew of Sen. Frederic Collin Walcott (S&B 1891)
[1] - FYI - Wiki - Frederic C. Walcott
[3] - Find a Grave - Frederic Collin Walcott (S&B 1891)
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