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Oliver Wolcott (
December 1,
1726 –
December 1,
1797), was a signer of the
United States Declaration of Independence and also the
Articles of Confederation as a
representative of
Connecticut.
Oliver Wolcott was born in
Windsor,
Connecticut, the youngest of fourteen children of the Royal
Governor Roger Wolcott. He attended
Yale College, graduating in
1747. He was commissioned to raise a
militia company to fight in the
French and Indian War, and he served the King as
captain in this unit on the northern
frontier. At the end of the war, Wolcott studied medicine, then was appointed
sheriff of the newly created
Litchfield County, Connecticut, serving from about 1751 to 1771.
He participated in the
American Revolutionary War as
brigadier general and then
major general in the Connecticut militia. The
Continental Congress appointed him Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and he was elected to the Congress in
1775. He became seriously ill in
1776 and didn't sign the Declaration of Independence until some time later. He was engaged in military affairs between 1776-78, and served again in Congress from 1778-1784.
He served again as an Indian
Commissioner, and was elected
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut in
1786, assuming the Governorship on the death of Samuel Huntington in 1796, and was reelected to the position, dying in office at the age of seventy-one in
Farmington, Connecticut. He is buried in East Cemetery in
Litchfield, Connecticut.
He was passionate about poetry. His son,
Oliver Wolcott, Jr., served as
Secretary of the Treasury under
Presidents George Washington and
John Adams and as
Governor of Connecticut.
The town of
Wolcott, Connecticut was named in honor of Oliver and his son, Oliver Jr.
His home in Litchfield was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971.
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