| Intro | Pennsylvania politician |
| Was | Politician |
| From | United States of America |
| Type | Politics |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 2 October 1894, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
| Death |
1 December 1969, Newtown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. (aged 75 years) |
| Politics | Republican Party |
Frank F Truscott (October 2, 1894 – December 1969) 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 [1]. 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 [2]. 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.
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.