Frank Truscott
Frank Truscott | |
|---|---|
| Attorney General of Pennsylvania | |
| In office October 13, 1953 – January 18, 1955 | |
| Governor | John Fine |
| Preceded by | Robert Woodside |
| Succeeded by | Herbert Cohen |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Frank F. Truscott October 2, 1894 Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | December 1969 (aged 75) Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
Frank F. Truscott (October 2, 1894 – December 1969) was an American attorney. He was an Attorney General of Pennsylvania and candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania. 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 Lafayette College in 1917. He was the longtime 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. 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 1954. 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 McCarthyist loyalty oath while serving as attorney general. In 1956, he was a prosecutor on the case against communist organizer Steve Nelson.