What is Oliver Wolcott?
{{Infobox Governor |name = Oliver Wolcott |image = Oliver Wolcott.jpg |order = 4th |office = Governor of Connecticut |term_start = 1796 |term_end = 1797 |lieutenant = [[Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.]] |predecessor = [[Samuel Huntington (statesman)|Samuel Huntington]] |successor = [[Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.]] |birth_date = [[December 1]], [[1726]] |birth_place = [[Windsor, Connecticut]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1797|12|1|1726|12|1}} |death_place = [[Farmington, Connecticut]] |party = [[Federalist Party|Federalist]] |spouse = |profession = |religion = |signature = Oliver Wolcott signature.png }} '''Oliver Wolcott''' ([[December 1]], [[1726]]– [[December 1]], [[1797]]), was a signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] and also the [[Articles of Confederation]] as a [[Representation (politics)|representative]] of [[Connecticut]]. ==Life== Oliver Wolcott was born in [[Windsor, Connecticut|Windsor]], [[Connecticut]] as the youngest of fourteen children of the Royal [[Governor]] [[Roger Wolcott (Connecticut)|Roger Wolcott]]. He attended [[Yale College]], graduating in 1747. He was commissioned to raise a [[militia]] company to fight in the [[French and Indian War]], and he served the King as [[captain (land)|Captain]] in this unit on the northern [[frontier]]. At the end of the war, Wolcott studied medicine, then was appointed [[sheriff]] of the newly created [[Litchfield County, Connecticut]], serving from about 1751 to 1771. He participated in the [[American Revolutionary War]] as [[brigadier general]] and then [[major general]] in the Connecticut militia. The [[Continental Congress]] appointed him 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 1776-78, and served again in Congress from 1778-1784. He served again as an Indian [[Commissioner]], and was elected [[Lieutenant Go