Fenwick, Millicent Hammond, 1910 - 1992

Dates

• Existence: 1910 - 1992

Biography

Entered Nightingale-Bamford School Class II A Upper School in 1920-21, withdrew the following year, reentered Class IV A-1 Upper School in 1922-23, and withdrew the following year to attend Foxcroft School in Virginia. Millicent V. Hammond was the second of three children of Ogden Haggerty Hammond (politician, Ambassador to Spain) and Mary Picton Stevens, both of historically prominent families. Mary perished in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania ship when Millicent was five years old. Millicent later attended Columbia University and the New School for Social Research. In 1932, she married Hugh McLeod Fenwick and lived in New Jersey, where they had two children, Mary Stevens Fenwick and Hugo Hammond Fenwick before divorcing in 1945. Millicent modeled for Harper's Bazaar and held various positions at Vogue magazine through 1948. A Republican, Millicent turned her attention to politics, serving on the Bernardsville Borough Council, the United States Commission on Civil Rights' New Jersey Committee, the New Jersey General Assembly, and as director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs. In 1974, she was elected to serve New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives. She was narrowly defeated for a U.S. Senate seat in 1982 but was appointed by President Reagan to serve as Ambassador to Food and Agricultural Organziation of the United Nations in Italy. Millicent retired in 1987 and passed away in Bernardsville, New Jersey in 1992. In 1995, the Millicent Fenwick Monument was unveiled in Bernardsville, sculpted by Dana Toomey.

See Wikipedia entry for Millicent Fenwick at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millicent_Fenwick, accessed Feb. 14, 2019.

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