Frank F Truscott (October 2, 1894 – December 1969) was a former

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and candidate for

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. He was born to a wealthy horse breeding family and long considered himself to be a gentleman farmer. He graduated with a law degree from

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in 1917. He was the longtime City Solicitor of

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and a key fixture in the last days of the city's dying Republican machine; he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1940. In 1953, he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the attorney general's office; he did not run for a full term, but instead sought the position of lieutenant governor in

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. From 1953 to 1969 he was a trustee of his alma mater, Lafayette College. Truscott was an outspoken opponent of Communism. He was involved in the circulation of a

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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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