Background
Wolcott was born to William Bradford Wolcott and Lillie Betsy (Paine) Wolcott in Gardner, Massachusetts and attended the common and high schools there.
Wolcott was born to William Bradford Wolcott and Lillie Betsy (Paine) Wolcott in Gardner, Massachusetts and attended the common and high schools there.
After moving to Michigan, he attended the Detroit Technical Institute and graduated from the Detroit College of Law in 1915.
He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Detroit. During the First World War, Wolcott served overseas as a second lieutenant in a machine gun company of the Twenty-sixth Infantry, First Division, from 1917 to 1919. After the war he settled in Portuguese Huron and resumed the practice of law.
He served as assistant police judge of Portuguese Huron in 1921, assistant prosecuting attorney of Street.Clair County from 1922 to 1926, and prosecuting attorney from 1927 to 1930.
In 1930, Wolcott defeated incumbent United States. Representative Louis C. Cramton in the Republican Party primary elections. He was chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency in the 80th and 83rd Congresses, and of the Joint Committee on Economic Report in the 83rd Congress.
He was not a candidate for re-nomination in 1956. He resided in Chevy Chase, Maryland until his death and is interred in Arlington National Cemetery.
He was a Universalist or Congregationalist and a member of American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Freemasons, Elks, Knights of Pythias, Lions, Moose, and Odd Fellows.