Background
Stoddard, Francis Russell was born on July 26, 1877 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Francis Russell and Mary Frances (Baldwin) Stoddard.
Stoddard, Francis Russell was born on July 26, 1877 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Francis Russell and Mary Frances (Baldwin) Stoddard.
Preparatory education, schools in France, Germany, Italy, and Hopkinson School, Boston. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1899. Law study Harvard and Buffalo law School.
In law department Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, 1902-1909. With law firm Greene & Hurd, 1909-1937, partner, 1915-1949. Now of counsel in succeeding firm Hamlin, Hubbell and Davis.
Special deputy attorney general of New York, 1910.
Member New York State Assembly, 1912, 14, 15. Deputy superintendent of insurance, in charge New York City office of New York State Insurance Department, 1915-1921.
State superintendent insurance, 1921-1924. Chairman New York State Pension Commission, 1921-1924.
Chairman of the executive committee National Convention of Insurance Commissioners, 1922-1924.
Employed by New Jersey Legislature to reorganize New Jersey State Banking and Insurance Department and to revise insurance laws, 1925-1926. Special deputy attorney general of New York, 1925-1928. Arbitrator, Greater New York, for fidelity and surety companies of the United States, 1927-1949, and for casualty companies, 1936-1949.
Member New York State Insurance Board, since 1933.
Counsel Eastern Life Insurance Company of New York, since 1926, United Mutual Life Insurance Company, since 1934. Vice president of Grant Monument Association.
Member New York State Assembly, 1912, 14, 15. Member New York State Insurance Board, since 1933. Served in Spanish-American War, 1898, Mexican border, 1916.
Member of New York State Republican Committee, 1926-1928.
Member Sons of Revolution, Society Mayflower Descendants in State of New York (ex-governor and governor general of general society), Society Colonial Wars in New York State (ex-governor and governor general. Mason.; Clubs: Union, Down Town, Badminton of City of New York (ex-president).
Married Eleanor Sherburne Whipple, November 8, 1909. Children: Margery Pepperell, Howland Bradford, Anna Bailey (Mistress Renwick Washington Hurry), Dudley Wentworth, Frances LeBaron (Mistress Edward Delaney Dunn, Junior.