1. Stuyvesant Wainwright II was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
12 Facts About Stuyvesant Wainwright
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Stuyvesant Wainwright's parents divorced in 1932, and his mother married Sir Hector MacNeal, the Scottish shipowner.
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Stuyvesant Wainwright then attended the Westminster School, Simsbury, Connecticut and graduated from Yale Law School in 1947.
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Stuyvesant Wainwright attended officers' candidate school and, on December 30,1943, went overseas during World War II.
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Stuyvesant Wainwright rose through the ranks and became a commanding officer of the Office of Strategic Services, a wartime intelligence agency and predecessor of the modern Central Intelligence Agency.
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Stuyvesant Wainwright returned to the US on June 10,1945, and spent the last three months of his service as an adviser on intelligence coordination in the War Department in Washington, DC Stuyvesant Wainwright was honorably discharged from the Army as a Captain on December 13,1945.
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Stuyvesant Wainwright went on to serve four consecutive terms as the Representative for New York's 1st congressional district from January 3,1953 until January 3,1961, in the 83rd, 84th, and 85th United States Congresses.
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Stuyvesant Wainwright voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960.
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Stuyvesant Wainwright narrowly lost a re-election bid in 1960 against Democrat Otis G Pike.
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In 1941, Stuyvesant Wainwright was married to Janet Isabel Parsons, the daughter of Thomas Crouse Parsons.
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Stuyvesant Wainwright served on the Boards of the Southampton Hospital, Guild Hall of East Hampton, the vestry of St Luke's Church in East Hampton, the Maidstone Club of East Hampton, and the Union Club of the City of New York.
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Stuyvesant Wainwright was a member of the New York Young Republican Club, the Cruising Club of America, and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club.