Background
Stickney was born in Salem, New Hampshire.
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Wallace Stickney
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Education
He graduated from New England College in 1959 (Bachelor of Science) and received master degrees from Northeastern University (Bachelor of Science) and Harvard University (Master of Arts).
Career
Stickney served the town engineer for Salem. He served as commissioner of the Southern Rockingham Regional Planning Commission. He also worked on environmental and economic impacts at the United States. Environmental Protection Agency office in Boston, Massachusetts.
From 1983 to 1985 he served as special assistant for environmental affairs to then Governor of New Hampshire, John H. Sununu.
In 1985, he served as a commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Transportation. He was nominated to lead Federal Emergency Management Agency in 1990.
At the time, a significant portion of Federal Emergency Management Agency"s budget dealt with Cold War issues of nuclear survivability. Stickney was later quoted "The evil empire had crumbled, the Warsaw Pact nations were becoming independent, and it became clear that the most difficult situation we would have to handle wouldn"t be a maximum lay-down but a partial one, in which only a part of the country was knocked out," says Stickney.
"lieutenant was a time of transition on the world scene.".
