Frank Truscott

Who was Frank Truscott?

Frank F Truscott 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. 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.

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.