Oliver Wolcott, Jr.

1760 - 1833  (73 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 21 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Oliver Wolcott
  Suffix	Jr.
  Birth	11 Jan 1760
  Gender	Male
  Prominent People	1795	Connecticut, USA
  24th Governor
  Death	01 Jun 1833
  Burial	Find a Grave
  Siblings	3 Siblings
  + 1. Oliver Wolcott, Jr.,   b. 11 Jan 1760   d. 01 Jun 1833  (Age 73 years) ▻ Elizabeth Stoughton   2. Laura Wolcott   3. Mariann Wolcott + 4. Judge Frederick Wolcott   d. Yes, date unknown ▻
  Person ID	I363984	Geneagraphie
  Links To	This person is also Oliver Wolcott Jr. at Wikipedia
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2016

  
  

  Father	Gen - Gov Oliver Wolcott,   b. 20 Nov 1726, Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut, USA d. 01 Dec 1797 (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Laura Collins   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	1755
  Family ID	F170131	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Stoughton,   b. 1766   d. 1805 (Age 39 years)
  Children	+ 1. Laura Wolcott,   b. 1794   d. 1870 (Age 76 years)   2. Elizabeth Stoughton Wolcott,   b. 1795   d. 1819 (Age 24 years)
  Family ID	F306130	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2016

  
  

• Notes

  George Washington's Secretary of the Treasury. United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1795 to 1800 and the 24th Governor of Connecticut from 1817 to 1827. He was able to graduate from Yale University in 1778, despite serving in the Continental Army from 1777 to 1779. He later read law and studied at Litchfield Law School to be admitted to the bar in 1781. He was a clerk in Connecticut's Office of the Committee on the Pay Table from 1781 to 1782, and a commissioner on that committee from 182-1784. Wolcott was appointed in 1784 as one of the commissioners to mediate claims between the U.S. and the state of Connecticut. After serving as state comptroller of Connecticut from 1788?90, he was named auditor of the federal treasury, and became Comptroller of the Treasury in 1791. He was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by George Washington in 1795 to succeed Alexander Hamilton. In late May 21, 1796 one of Martha Washington's slaves, Oney Judge, escaped from the Executive Mansion in Philadelphia, where she lived with the Washingtons during his presidency, serving as Martha's chambermaid. As Secretary, Wolcott was George Washington's intermediary in getting the Collector of Customs for Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Joseph Whipple, to capture and send Martha Washington's runaway slave, Oney Judge (sometimes Ona), to Mount Vernon, where she had begun serving the Washingtons. Whipple met with Oney, discussed why she had escaped and tried to ascertain the facts of the case. After she told him she did not desire to be a slave again, Whipple refused to remove Ms Judge against her will, saying that it could cause civil unrest due to abolitionists, and recommended the President go through the courts if needed. In their correspondence, Washington said that he wanted to avoid controversy, so he did not use the courts to take advantage of the method he himself had signed into law under the 1793 Slave Act. Washington made another attempt to apprehend her in 1798. This time he asked his nephew, Burwell Bassett, Jr to convince her to return or to take her by force, but Oney was warned by senator John Langdon and hid. Wolcott's involvement with this case ended with the first attempt to return Oney Judge to slavery. In 1799, as Secretary of the Treasury, he designed the United States Customs Service flag He resigned in 1800 due to unpopularity, and a particularly vitriolic campaign against him in the press in which, among other things, he was falsely accused of setting fire to the State Department building. Wolcott was one of President John Adams' so-called "midnight judges", appointed to a new seat as a federal judge on the United States circuit court for the Second Circuit, created by 2 Stat. 89, almost on the eve of Jefferson's inauguration in 1801. Nominated by Adams on February 18, 1801, Wolcott was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 20, 1801, and received his commission the same day. Wolcott's service was terminated on July 1, 1802, due to abolition of the court. From 1803 to 1815 he operated in private business in New York City, afterwards retiring to Litchfield and farming. He was elected Governor of Connecticut in 1817 as a "Toleration Republican", following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, and serving ten years in the post. His tenure was noted for the economic growth and moderate policies that attended it. Additionally, he presided over a convention that created a new state constitution in 1818. Nevertheless, he was defeated for reelection as Governor of Connecticut in 1827. Wolcott died in New York City and is interred at East Cemetery in Litchfield. Wolcott was the last surviving member of the Washington Cabinet. The town of Wolcott, Connecticut was named in honor of Oliver Jr. and his father Oliver