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\"Massachusetts Governor\" Roger Wolcott Signed 3.5X2.5 Card:
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Up for sale "Massachusetts Governor" Roger Wolcott  Hand Signed 3.5X2.5 Card Dated 1900. 

December 21, 1900) was a Republican lawyer

and politician from Massachusetts. He

was Lieutenant

Governor of Massachusetts from 1893 to 1897, becoming Acting

Governor in 1896 upon the death of Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge. He

was elected governor in his own right in 1897, serving until 1900. He was a

leading figure in the Young Republican Club, which revitalized the

Massachusetts Republican Party in the 1890s. Roger Wolcott was born in Boston, Massachusetts on

July 13, 1847. He was the son of Joshua Huntington Wolcott and Cornelia

(Frothingham) Wolcott, and was descended from Connecticut Founding Father Oliver Wolcott. His father was a successful businessman,

having long been associated with the textile firm of A. & A. Lawrence.

Roger Wolcott was first educated at a private school in Boston. After his older

brother was killed in the American Civil War, the

family traveled to Europe,  visiting England, Switzerland, and France, during which Wolcott continued his studies. Upon the

family's return to Boston Wolcott entered Harvard College as a sophomore, graduating in 1870. He

then attended Harvard Law School,

graduating in 1874, and was admitted to the Suffolk County bar

the same year. He married Edith Prescott on September 2, 1874; she was the

great-granddaughter of Colonel William Prescott. The couple spent a year-long honeymoon in

Europe. Wolcott opened a law office in Boston in 1875. He became increasingly

involved in the affairs of his father's business associates, eventually being

appointed to serve on a number of corporate boards. Businesses he was

associated with included the Boston and Albany Railroad and

the New England Trust Company. He was also involved in philanthropic

organizations, serving as a member of the Boston Provident Association, and as

trustee of the Eye and Ear Infirmary and the Massachusetts General

Hospital. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical

Society, and an overseer of Harvard College. Wolcott became involved

in politics not long after opening his law practice, winning a seat on the

Boston Common Council in 1877 which he held for three years. He served as a

member of the Massachusetts Court) from 1881–1884, and was offered the Republican Party nomination

for Mayor of Boston in

1885, but refused on account of his father's poor health. Wolcott cared for his

father until his death in 1891. Wolcott began to assume a more prominent role

in Republican circles after his father's death. He was a founding member and

the first president of the Young Republican Club, an organization designed to

inject new life into the party. This organization promoted him as a potential

candidate for lieutenant

governor. In the 1892 state convention, Wolcott won the nomination

despite opposition from some party leaders. Even though the Republican

gubernatorial candidate, William H. Haile, lost to incumbent Democrat William Russell, Wolcott

won his race.[2] He served as the 36th Lieutenant Governor from

1893–1897, first under Russell, and then under Republican Frederic T. Greenhalge. He

assumed the gubernatorial duties as Acting Governor in

March 1896 as a result of the death of Greenhalge, and was later elected as

the 39th Governor

in November, serving from 1897 until 1900. He was reelected each year by large

popular majorities. While Governor, Wolcott approved a bill authorizing the

purchase by the Boston Elevated Railway the

state-owned Tremont Street Subway tunnel,

but required a public referendum on the proposed purchase. When it was brought

to a vote, it was defeated by a 2-to-1 margin. When the Spanish–American War broke

out in 1898, Wolcott immediately put the state on a war footing, securing

legislative authorization for military expenditures in just 25 minutes. The

state was one of the first to supply militia troops to the war effort.

In 1899, Wolcott decided not to run for reelection. He was offered a

variety of diplomatic posts by President William McKinley, but refused them, and embarked on a trip to

Europe with his family in May 1900. After his return he campaigned for

Republicans in the 1900 elections. He fell ill with typhoid fever in mid-November, and died in Boston on

December 21, 1900. The trustees of Milton Academy named the largest of the

campus houses after Gov. Wolcott following his death in 1900.

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