Stuyvesant Wainwright

Stuyvesant Wainwright II (March 16, 1921 – March 6, 2010) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.

Early life Wainwright was born in New York City, the son of Carroll Livingston Wainwright (1899–1967) and Edith Catherine Gould (1901–1937), daughter of financier George Jay Gould (1864–1923) and Edith M. Kingdon (1864–1921). His siblings were Carroll L. Wainwright Jr. (1925–2016) and Caroline Wainwright (1924–1969), and his paternal grandparents were Stuyvesant Wainwright (1863–1930) and Caroline Smith Snowden (1865–1960). His grandmother later married Carl F. Wolff. He attended Lawrenceville School in 1936–37, playing on the tennis team and residing in Dickinson House. He then attended the Westminster School, Simsbury, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale Law School in 1947. He returned to the U.S. on June 10, 1945, and spent the last three months of his service as an adviser on intelligence coordination in the War Department in Washington, D.C. He was honorably discharged from the Army as a Captain on December 13, 1945. After the War, he served in the Active Army Reserve Wainwright went on to serve four consecutive terms as the Representative for New York's 1st congressional district from January 3, 1953, until January 3, 1961, in the 83rd, 84th, and 85th United States Congresses.

While serving in Congress, he was a member of the House Armed Services Committee, Foreign Affairs Committee, the Education and Labor Committee and the Merchant Marine Committee.

He narrowly lost a re-election bid in 1960 against Democrat Otis G. Pike.

Later career After leaving the House of Representatives, he taught political science at Rutgers University from 1960 to 1961. Afterwards, he resumed the practice of law with the firm Battle, Fowler, Lidstone, Jaffin, Pierce & Kheel. the daughter of Thomas Crouse Parsons. Before their divorce, they were the parents of: Janet Snowden Wainwright, who married Charles Brandon Waring in 1967. Laura Wainwright

Until his death he was a resident of Wainscott, New York and lived on Georgica Pond, a census-designated place that roughly corresponds to the hamlet with the same name in the town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, on the South Fork of Long Island.

He served on the Boards of the Southampton Hospital, Guild Hall of East Hampton, the vestry of St. Luke's Church in East Hampton, the Maidstone Club of East Hampton, and the Union Club of the City of New York. He was also a member of the New York Young Republican Club, the Cruising Club of America, and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club.