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Christopher Parsons Wolcott was a Republican politician from the state of Ohio. He was Ohio Attorney General 1856–1860 and United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1862 to 1863. ==Biography== Wolcott was born December 17, 1820, in Wolcott, Connecticut. In 1833 he was moved to Steubenville, Ohio, and attended public schools. He attended Washington College in Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1840. He read law with ''Tappan & Stanton'' in Steubenville,〔Lane 1892 : 553〕 and was admitted to the bar and began practice in Ravenna, Ohio. In Ravenna he partnered with Lucius V. Bierce.〔 In 1846 he moved to Akron, Ohio. In Akron he partnered with William Otis, until Otis removed to Cleveland. He then partnered with William H. Upson, which lasted the rest of his life.〔 In 1856, Governor Salmon P. Chase appointed him Ohio Attorney General to replace the deceased Francis D. Kimball.〔Smith 1898 Volume I : 67〕 He was elected to a two-year term later in 1856,〔1856 election Republican Wolcott 176,155 Democrat Samuel M. Hart 154,313 American Party John M. Buselfreed 23,095 from Smith 1898 Volume I : 65〕 and another in 1858.〔1858 election Republican Wolcott 182,985 Democrat Durbin Ward 162,136 from Smith 1898 Volume I : 84〕 His cases as attorney general included the Breslin Treasury defalcation and the Wellington Rescue, where his arguments before the United States Supreme Court were widely celebrated.〔 Ohio Governor William Dennison named Wolcott to replace the deceased John C. Wright at the Peace Conference of 1861.〔Parsons 1885 : 11〕 In May, 1862, Secretary of War, fellow Steubenville native and Wolcott's brother in law,〔Neff 1921 : 172〕 Edwin M. Stanton asked him to be First Assistant Secretary during the American Civil War.〔Poore 1878 : 232〕 Stanton was prophetic, as under the strain of the job, Wolcott's health gave out, leading to his resignation February, 1863. He returned to Akron. After two months of suffering, he died there April 4, 1863.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christopher Wolcott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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