| 词条 | Roger Wolcott (Connecticut) |
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|name = Roger Wolcott |office = Deputy Governor |state = Connecticut |term_start = 1741 |term_end = 1750 |predecessor = Jonathan Law |successor = Thomas Fitch |birth_date = {{birth date|1679|1|4}} |birth_place = Windsor, Connecticut |death_date = {{death date and age|1767|5|17|1679|1|4}} |death_place = Windsor, Connecticut |spouse = Sarah Drake Wolcott |children = Roger Wolcott Elizabeth Wolcott Newberry Alexander Wolcott Josiah Wolcott Erastus Wolcott Ursula Wolcott Griswold Oliver Wolcott Sr. Marian Wolcott Williams |alma mater = |occupation = Weaver, Statesman, Politician |party = |signature = Roger Wolcott Sig.png |parents=Simon Wolcott Martha Pitkin Wolcott}} Roger Wolcott (January 4, 1679 – May 17, 1767) was an American weaver, statesman, and politician from Windsor, Connecticut. He served as colonial governor of Connecticut from 1751 to 1754. BiographyWolcott was born the son of Simon Wolcott and Martha Pitkin Wolcott in Windsor, Connecticut. His formal education was severely limited by the nature of the frontier village, so at age twelve he was apprenticed to a weaver, and at the age of twenty-one entered that business on his own. He married Sarah Drake on December 3, 1702, and they had fifteen children before her death in 1748.[1] Their son Oliver Wolcott Sr. signed the Declaration of Independence and went on to become governor of Connecticut. CareerIn May 1709, Wolcott was admitted to the bar and began to practice law.[2] In 1711, during Queen Anne's War, He accompanied militia forces on an expedition to Quebec as a commissary. On his return he served as Clerk of the House, 1710-1711 and was elected Deputy to the colony's Lower House in 1709-1714, 1718, 1719, serving as Speaker in October, 1719. In 1714 he was elected to the Upper House (also called the Council) and served as Assistant, 1714-1718, 1720-1741, 1754-1760. He was Commissioner of Connecticut for the Adjustment of Colonial boundaries, 1717, 1718, 1723-1726, 1728, 1730, 1737, 1740, 1742, 1750. Captain of the Trainband of Windsor, 1722. Captain of Troops raised for active service, 1724. He was made judge of the Hartford County court in 1723, serving through 1732, and of the colony's Superior Court in 1732, serving through 1741. Wolcott was made Colonel of the First regiment, 1739.[3] In 1741 Wolcott was elected Deputy Governor of the colony. As deputy governors traditionally served as the Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Connecticut, he also assumed that position, which he held until 1750. In 1745 Wolcott was again active in the militia, this time as a Major General. In King George's War, Massachusetts governor William Shirley issued a general call to the New England colonies for an expedition against the French in Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island). Wolcott served as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in the Expedition to Cape Breton. General Wolcott headed the Connecticut troops in Sir William Pepperrell's expedition that captured Fortress Louisbourg.[4] With the death of Governor Jonathan Law in 1750, Wolcott succeeded to the position of governor. He was re-elected annually to that position through 1753. Shortly after he retired as governor, his son, Roger Wolcott, Sr., attended negotiations with six other British colonies and around 200 members of various Indian nations at the Albany Congress in June and July 1754. During his administration, a disabled Spanish ship, the St. Joseph and St. Helena, with a cargo valued at 400,000 Spanish dollars, ran aground near New London. Wolcott ordered the ship seized and the cargo impounded in order to allow time to resolve conflicting claims between the vessel's captain and the salvage crew. While in the colony's custody, a large portion of the ship's cargo mysteriously disappeared. Tainted with the scandal surrounding the Spanish Ship case, he was defeated for re-election in 1754. All previous governors had died in office.[5] Following his defeat, Wolcott generally withdrew from public life to study and follow literary pursuits. In 1759, Wolcott authored a short history of the Connecticut colony titled, Roger Wolcott's Memoir Relating to the History of Connecticut. DeathWolcott died at home in Windsor and is interred at the Old Burying Ground (Palisado Cemetery) there.[6] References1. ^{{cite web|title=Roger Wolcott, Sr.|url=http://www.cslib.org/gov/wolcottr.htm|publisher=Connecticut State Library|accessdate=18 January 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106101457/http://www.cslib.org/gov/wolcottr.htm|archivedate=6 January 2013|df=}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=Roger Wolcott|url=http://chs.org/finding_aides/finding_aids/wolcr1767_pdf.pdf|publisher=Connecticut Historical Society|accessdate=18 January 2013}} 3. ^{{Cite book|title = Register of the Connecticut Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1893-1907|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mggvAAAAYAAJ|publisher = Connecticut Society|date = 1907-01-01|language = en|first = |last = }} 4. ^{{Cite web|url = http://ctstatelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Roger-Wolcott.pdf|title = Roger Wolcott|date = |accessdate = December 23, 2015|website = Connecticut State Library|publisher = |last = |first = }} 5. ^{{cite book|title=Roger Wolcott|url=https://books.google.com/?id=_zcEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA81&dq=Roger+Wolcott+biography+connecticut|publisher=The governors of Connecticut: biographies of the chief executives|accessdate=18 January 2013|year=1905}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Roger Wolcott|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#539.20.10|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=18 January 2013}} External links
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