Frank Truscott
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Frank F Truscott was a former Attorney General of Pennsylvania and candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
. He was born to a wealthy horse breading family and long considered himself to be a gentleman farmer http://www.historicnewtownsquare.org/ns/history/bookonline/part_3_13.asp. He graduated with a law degree from Lafayette College
in 1917. He was the long time City Solicitor of Philadelphia and a key fixture in the last days of the city's dying Republican machine; he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1940 http://www.ushistory.org/iha/dreams40.htm. In 1955, he was appointed to fill a vacany in the Attorney General's office; he did not run for a full term, but instead sought the position of Lieutenant Governor in 1954
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Truscott was an outspoken opponent of Communism. He was involved in the circulation of a McCarthyist
loyalty oath while serving as Attorney General. In 1956, he was a prosecutor on the case against communist organizer Steve Nelson
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Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
The Lieutenant Governor is a constitutional officer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Lieutenant Governor is elected every four years along with the Governor. Jim Cawley of Bucks County is the incumbent Lieutenant Governor...
. He was born to a wealthy horse breading family and long considered himself to be a gentleman farmer http://www.historicnewtownsquare.org/ns/history/bookonline/part_3_13.asp. He graduated with a law degree from Lafayette College
Lafayette College
Lafayette College is a private coeducational liberal arts and engineering college located in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. The school, founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter,son of General Andrew Porter of Norristown and citizens of Easton, first began holding classes in 1832...
in 1917. He was the long time City Solicitor of Philadelphia and a key fixture in the last days of the city's dying Republican machine; he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1940 http://www.ushistory.org/iha/dreams40.htm. In 1955, he was appointed to fill a vacany in the Attorney General's office; he did not run for a full term, but instead sought the position of Lieutenant Governor in 1954
Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, 1954
The Pennsylvania gubernatorial election of 1954 was held on November 2. In what is considered a crucial realigning election for the state, Democratic State Senator George Leader defeated Republican incumbent Lieutenant Governor Lloyd Wood by a surprisingly large margin.Entering the 1954 campaign,...
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Truscott was an outspoken opponent of Communism. He was involved in the circulation of a McCarthyist
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s and characterized by...
loyalty oath while serving as Attorney General. In 1956, he was a prosecutor on the case against communist organizer Steve Nelson
Steve Nelson (activist)
Stjepan Mesaros, best known as Steve Nelson was a Croatian-born American political activist. Nelson achieved public notoriety as the political commissar of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War and a leading functionary of the Communist Party, USA...
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