Career
Wolcott participated in the American Revolutionary War as brigadier general and then major general in the Connecticut militia. His home was busy during the war. General George Washington stayed there and bullets were manufactured there, some from the melted down body of the statue of King George III.
The Continental Congress appointed Wolcott Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and he was elected to the Congress in 1775. He became seriously ill in 1776 and did not sign the Declaration of Independence until some time later. He was engaged in military affairs between 1776 and 1778, and served again in Congress from 1778 to 1784.
Elected Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut in 1786, Wolcott served in that post for ten years. He assumed the Governorship on the death of Samuel Huntington in 1796, and was reelected to the position, holding the office until his death at the age of seventy-one.
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