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| image=Malcolm Wallop of WY.jpg
| name=Malcolm Wallop
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office=[[United States Senator]] for [[Wyoming]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| term_start=January 3, 1977
| term_end=January 3, 1995
| preceded1=Gale William McGee
| succeeded1=[[Craig Thomas]]
| office2=Wyoming State Representative
| term_start2=January 6, 1969
| term_end2=July 4, 1973
| office3=Wyoming State Senator
| term_start3=July 6, 1973
| term_end3=June 5, 1976
| birth_date=February 27, 1933
| birth_place=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
| death_date=September 14, 2011 (aged 78)
| death_place=Big Horn, Wyoming
| resting_place=Sheridan Municipal Cemetery in Sheridan, Wyoming
| spouse=(1) Josephine Vail Stebbins Wallop (married 1956-1965, divorced)
(2) Jean Warren Wallop (married 1967-1981, divorced)
(3) French Carter Gamble Goodwyn (married 1984-2000, divorced)<br>
(4) Isabel Brooke Thomasson Fergusson Wallop (married 2005-2011, his death)
|children=From first marriage:<br>
Malcolm Moncreiffe Henry Wallop<br>
Oliver Matthew Wallop<br>
Amy Vail Wallop Hendrickson<br>
Paul Stebbins Wallop
|occupation=Rancher
|branch=[[United States Army]]
|serviceyears=1955-1957
|rank=First Lieutenant}}
'''Malcolm Wallop''' (February 27, 1933 – September 14, 2011) was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[United State Senator]] from 1977 to 1995 for his adopted state of [[Wyoming]]. A rancher by occupation, he was descended from title [[England|English]] aristocrats.<ref name=findagrave>Malcolm Wallop (1933-2011) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed July 27, 2021.</ref>?
==Background==
Wallop was born in [[New York City]] to Oliver Malcolm Wallop (1905-1980) and the former Jean McGinley Moore (1908-1943). His mother died when Malcolm was ten years of age. He was sent to the Cate School in Carpentira in Santa Barbara County, [[California]], where he was taught horse riding skills which came in handy in his career as a rancher. In 1954, his father married the former Carolyn Towle (1906-1972). That same year, Wallop graduated from [[Yale University]] in New Haven, [[Connecticut]].
His paternal grandfather, Oliver Henry Wallop (1861-1943), the 8th earl of Portsmouth, emigrated to the United States and enterrd the cattle business. He is the only person to have served in both the [[Great Britain|British]] [[House of Lords]] and the Wyoming House of Representatives in which Malcolm Wallop served from 1969 to 1973.<ref name=NYTobit/> Wallop's maternal grandfather was Edward Small Moore and maternal great-grandfather was the industrialist and [[attorney]] William Henry Moore (1848-1923). <ref>"W. H. Moore, Lawyer and Horseman Dies, known Internationally as a Breeder and Exhibitor of Thoroughbreds," ''[[The New York Times]],'' January 12, 1923.</ref>
Wallop had a brother, Edward John Wallop (1930-2000), and a sister, Jean Margaret Wallop Herbert (1935-2019), the wife of Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert (1924-2001), the 7th Earl of Carnarvon, who was the racing manager for Queen [[Elizabeth II]].<ref>Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert (1924-2001) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed July 27, 2021.</ref> In 1984, the queen visited the Herberts and Wallops at the Canyon Ranch in Big Horn, Wyoming.<ref>"Ranch's Royal Guest Arrives for Weekend",''The New York Times,'' October 13, 1984</ref> That same year Wallop married for the third time, French Carter Gamble Goodwyn. The couple divorced in 2001 and quarreled over her share of Wallop lands. The divorce decree in 2004 upheld his claims.<ref>Wyoming high court upholds Wallop divorce settlement | Wyoming News | billingsgazette.com, accessed July 27, 2021.</ref>
==Career==
Following his graduation from Yale, Wallop served from 1955 to 1957 in the [[United States Army]] as a first lieutenant.
After his discharge from the Army, Wallop began ranching, and entered politics in 1969 as a state representative from Sheridan. From 1973 to 1976, he was a state senator.<ref name=NYTobit/>
In 1974, Wallop sought the Republican [Governor|gubernatorial]] nomination,<ref name=NYTobit/> but was defeated by his state Senate colleague, [[Dick Jones (Wyoming politician)|Richard R. "Dick" Jones]], a trucking executive from Cody and Powell in Park County in northwestern Wyoming. Jones went on to lose the [[general election]] in a heavily [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] year to Edgar Jacob Herschler (1918-1999) of Kemmerer in Lincoln County in southwestern Wyoming.
In 1976, a nationally Democratic year, [[Gerald Ford|Gerald R. Ford, Jr.]], still defeated [[Jimmy Carter]] in Wyoming, and Wallop unseated three-term Democratic U.S. Senator Gale William McGee (1915-1992) with 55 percent of the vote. <ref name=NYTobit/>His election advertising depicted a cowboy riding across the range with a portable toilet on top of a pack horse.<ref name=vacav/>
Though Wallop said that he would serve only one term, he completed three terms. Senator Wallop supported strong national security. On fiscal matters, Wallop favored reductions in estate and gift taxes.<ref name=NYTobit>{{cite web |author=Margalit Fox|date=September 15, 2011 |title=Malcolm Wallop, Senator From Wyoming, Dies at 78 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/us/malcolm-wallop-ex-senator-of-wyoming-dies-at-78.html?_r=1 |publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=July 27, 2021}}</ref>
Wallop was the only non-lawyer to have served on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He was also on the Natural Resources Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence. From 1981 to 1983, he served as chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee.<ref name=NYTobit/>
As a freshman senator, Wallop authored the legislation that created the Congressional Award program to recognize volunteerism among the youth. His 1977 amendment to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
required the national government to compensate property owners who sustained losses because of mining regulations. Three years later, Wallop successfully amended the [[Clean Water Act]] to protect Wyoming interests<ref name=NYTobit/>
In 1977, Wallop was one of only nine senators to vote against the adoption of a strict code of ethics for the body.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/04/02/archives/long-island-opinion-senate-869-adopts-a-strict-ethics-code-to-build.html|title=SENATE, 86‐9, ADOPTS A STRICT ETHICS CODE TO BUILD CONFIDENCE|date=April 2, 1977|publisher=''The New York Times''|date=April 2, 1977}}</ref>
In 1981, Wallop was instrumental in the repeal of President Carter's "windfall profits tax. Wallop was re-elected in a nationally Democratic year by a 14-point margin over Democrat Rodger McDaniel (born 1948), a Wyoming state legislator and currently a [[Presbyterian]] pastor in the capital city of [[Cheyenne]]. In his second term, Wallop supported the 1983 [[Strategic Defense Initiative]],<ref name=NYTobit/> a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles but derided by Democrats as "Star Wars."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306023546/http://fas.org/spp/starwars/program/milestone.htm
|author=Donald R. Baucom|title=Missile Defense Milestones"|publisher=fas.org|date=March 6, 2016}}</ref>
In 1988, Wallop won his final term by just 1,322 votes over Democratic state senator John P. Vinich (1950-2004), the son of the 1972 Democratic Senate nominee, Mike M. Vinich (1924-2015), who lost to [[Clifford P. Hansen]], a former one-term governor and two-term U.S. senator. In his last term, Wallop pressed foreign policy and trade debates. He was a member of the [[Helsinki Commission]] and was a defender of the [[General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]] and the [[World Trade Organization]].<ref name=NYTobit/>
From 1990-94, he was the ranking Republican member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and in 1992, was a key force behind passage of the far-reaching Energy Policy Act.<ref name=NYTobit/>
In 1994, a strongly Republican year nationally, Wallop did not seek a fourth term but became the director of the conservative Frontiers of Freedom Foundation think tank.<ref name=vacaville/>He was succeeded as senator by fellow Republican [[Craig. Thomas]], who was ten days older than Wallop and died in office in 2007, when he was succeeded by Republican [[John Barrasso]]. ''The Economist'' wrote of Wallop: "Although his detractors have steadily grown in number, even Democrats grudgingly admitted to liking his candor and his willingness to be stupendously politically incorrect."<ref name=NYTobit/>
In 1996, Wallop was the general chairman and executive director of the [[Steve Forbes]] campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Forbes obtained primary wins in [[Delaware]] and [[Arizona]] but lost the nomination to Senater [[Bob Dole]] of [[Kansas]], who was then defeated by incumbent [[Bill Clinton]].<ref name=e name="ffbio"/>
Wallop died in Big Horn, Wyoming, at the age of seventy-eight of a long illness He was survived by fourth wife, Isabel Brooke Thomasson Ferguson Wallop and his four children from the first marriage.<ref name=NYTobit/>
[[Moderate Republican]] Senator [[Alan Simpson]] recalled his Wyoming colleague as "a highly "principled politician. I never saw him go back on his word," he said. "It was a joy to debate with him, more fun being on his side I'll tell you that than it was on the other side."<ref name=vacaville>Malcolm Wallop Obituary (2011) - Vacaville, CA - The Reporter (legacy.com), accessed July 26, 2021.</ref>
Former Vice President of the United States [[Dick Cheney]], who earlier held Wyoming's single seat in the U.S. House, said of Wallop: "Malcolm was sort of the spark plug, he was the senior guy, and Al [Simpson] and I were delighted to work with him. My record and Malcolm's record were pretty similar in terms of how we voted on the issues."<ref name=vacaville/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallop, Malcolm}}
[[Category:Wyoming]]
[[Category:Ranchers]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:Episcopalians]]
| image=Malcolm Wallop of WY.jpg
| name=Malcolm Wallop
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office=[[United States Senator]] for [[Wyoming]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| term_start=January 3, 1977
| term_end=January 3, 1995
| preceded1=Gale William McGee
| succeeded1=[[Craig Thomas]]
| office2=Wyoming State Representative
| term_start2=January 6, 1969
| term_end2=July 4, 1973
| office3=Wyoming State Senator
| term_start3=July 6, 1973
| term_end3=June 5, 1976
| birth_date=February 27, 1933
| birth_place=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
| death_date=September 14, 2011 (aged 78)
| death_place=Big Horn, Wyoming
| resting_place=Sheridan Municipal Cemetery in Sheridan, Wyoming
| spouse=(1) Josephine Vail Stebbins Wallop (married 1956-1965, divorced)
(2) Jean Warren Wallop (married 1967-1981, divorced)
(3) French Carter Gamble Goodwyn (married 1984-2000, divorced)<br>
(4) Isabel Brooke Thomasson Fergusson Wallop (married 2005-2011, his death)
|children=From first marriage:<br>
Malcolm Moncreiffe Henry Wallop<br>
Oliver Matthew Wallop<br>
Amy Vail Wallop Hendrickson<br>
Paul Stebbins Wallop
|occupation=Rancher
|branch=[[United States Army]]
|serviceyears=1955-1957
|rank=First Lieutenant}}
'''Malcolm Wallop''' (February 27, 1933 – September 14, 2011) was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[United State Senator]] from 1977 to 1995 for his adopted state of [[Wyoming]]. A rancher by occupation, he was descended from title [[England|English]] aristocrats.<ref name=findagrave>Malcolm Wallop (1933-2011) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed July 27, 2021.</ref>?
==Background==
Wallop was born in [[New York City]] to Oliver Malcolm Wallop (1905-1980) and the former Jean McGinley Moore (1908-1943). His mother died when Malcolm was ten years of age. He was sent to the Cate School in Carpentira in Santa Barbara County, [[California]], where he was taught horse riding skills which came in handy in his career as a rancher. In 1954, his father married the former Carolyn Towle (1906-1972). That same year, Wallop graduated from [[Yale University]] in New Haven, [[Connecticut]].
His paternal grandfather, Oliver Henry Wallop (1861-1943), the 8th earl of Portsmouth, emigrated to the United States and enterrd the cattle business. He is the only person to have served in both the [[Great Britain|British]] [[House of Lords]] and the Wyoming House of Representatives in which Malcolm Wallop served from 1969 to 1973.<ref name=NYTobit/> Wallop's maternal grandfather was Edward Small Moore and maternal great-grandfather was the industrialist and [[attorney]] William Henry Moore (1848-1923). <ref>"W. H. Moore, Lawyer and Horseman Dies, known Internationally as a Breeder and Exhibitor of Thoroughbreds," ''[[The New York Times]],'' January 12, 1923.</ref>
Wallop had a brother, Edward John Wallop (1930-2000), and a sister, Jean Margaret Wallop Herbert (1935-2019), the wife of Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert (1924-2001), the 7th Earl of Carnarvon, who was the racing manager for Queen [[Elizabeth II]].<ref>Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert (1924-2001) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed July 27, 2021.</ref> In 1984, the queen visited the Herberts and Wallops at the Canyon Ranch in Big Horn, Wyoming.<ref>"Ranch's Royal Guest Arrives for Weekend",''The New York Times,'' October 13, 1984</ref> That same year Wallop married for the third time, French Carter Gamble Goodwyn. The couple divorced in 2001 and quarreled over her share of Wallop lands. The divorce decree in 2004 upheld his claims.<ref>Wyoming high court upholds Wallop divorce settlement | Wyoming News | billingsgazette.com, accessed July 27, 2021.</ref>
==Career==
Following his graduation from Yale, Wallop served from 1955 to 1957 in the [[United States Army]] as a first lieutenant.
After his discharge from the Army, Wallop began ranching, and entered politics in 1969 as a state representative from Sheridan. From 1973 to 1976, he was a state senator.<ref name=NYTobit/>
In 1974, Wallop sought the Republican [Governor|gubernatorial]] nomination,<ref name=NYTobit/> but was defeated by his state Senate colleague, [[Dick Jones (Wyoming politician)|Richard R. "Dick" Jones]], a trucking executive from Cody and Powell in Park County in northwestern Wyoming. Jones went on to lose the [[general election]] in a heavily [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] year to Edgar Jacob Herschler (1918-1999) of Kemmerer in Lincoln County in southwestern Wyoming.
In 1976, a nationally Democratic year, [[Gerald Ford|Gerald R. Ford, Jr.]], still defeated [[Jimmy Carter]] in Wyoming, and Wallop unseated three-term Democratic U.S. Senator Gale William McGee (1915-1992) with 55 percent of the vote. <ref name=NYTobit/>His election advertising depicted a cowboy riding across the range with a portable toilet on top of a pack horse.<ref name=vacav/>
Though Wallop said that he would serve only one term, he completed three terms. Senator Wallop supported strong national security. On fiscal matters, Wallop favored reductions in estate and gift taxes.<ref name=NYTobit>{{cite web |author=Margalit Fox|date=September 15, 2011 |title=Malcolm Wallop, Senator From Wyoming, Dies at 78 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/us/malcolm-wallop-ex-senator-of-wyoming-dies-at-78.html?_r=1 |publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=July 27, 2021}}</ref>
Wallop was the only non-lawyer to have served on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He was also on the Natural Resources Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence. From 1981 to 1983, he served as chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee.<ref name=NYTobit/>
As a freshman senator, Wallop authored the legislation that created the Congressional Award program to recognize volunteerism among the youth. His 1977 amendment to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
required the national government to compensate property owners who sustained losses because of mining regulations. Three years later, Wallop successfully amended the [[Clean Water Act]] to protect Wyoming interests<ref name=NYTobit/>
In 1977, Wallop was one of only nine senators to vote against the adoption of a strict code of ethics for the body.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/04/02/archives/long-island-opinion-senate-869-adopts-a-strict-ethics-code-to-build.html|title=SENATE, 86‐9, ADOPTS A STRICT ETHICS CODE TO BUILD CONFIDENCE|date=April 2, 1977|publisher=''The New York Times''|date=April 2, 1977}}</ref>
In 1981, Wallop was instrumental in the repeal of President Carter's "windfall profits tax. Wallop was re-elected in a nationally Democratic year by a 14-point margin over Democrat Rodger McDaniel (born 1948), a Wyoming state legislator and currently a [[Presbyterian]] pastor in the capital city of [[Cheyenne]]. In his second term, Wallop supported the 1983 [[Strategic Defense Initiative]],<ref name=NYTobit/> a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles but derided by Democrats as "Star Wars."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306023546/http://fas.org/spp/starwars/program/milestone.htm
|author=Donald R. Baucom|title=Missile Defense Milestones"|publisher=fas.org|date=March 6, 2016}}</ref>
In 1988, Wallop won his final term by just 1,322 votes over Democratic state senator John P. Vinich (1950-2004), the son of the 1972 Democratic Senate nominee, Mike M. Vinich (1924-2015), who lost to [[Clifford P. Hansen]], a former one-term governor and two-term U.S. senator. In his last term, Wallop pressed foreign policy and trade debates. He was a member of the [[Helsinki Commission]] and was a defender of the [[General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]] and the [[World Trade Organization]].<ref name=NYTobit/>
From 1990-94, he was the ranking Republican member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and in 1992, was a key force behind passage of the far-reaching Energy Policy Act.<ref name=NYTobit/>
In 1994, a strongly Republican year nationally, Wallop did not seek a fourth term but became the director of the conservative Frontiers of Freedom Foundation think tank.<ref name=vacaville/>He was succeeded as senator by fellow Republican [[Craig. Thomas]], who was ten days older than Wallop and died in office in 2007, when he was succeeded by Republican [[John Barrasso]]. ''The Economist'' wrote of Wallop: "Although his detractors have steadily grown in number, even Democrats grudgingly admitted to liking his candor and his willingness to be stupendously politically incorrect."<ref name=NYTobit/>
In 1996, Wallop was the general chairman and executive director of the [[Steve Forbes]] campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Forbes obtained primary wins in [[Delaware]] and [[Arizona]] but lost the nomination to Senater [[Bob Dole]] of [[Kansas]], who was then defeated by incumbent [[Bill Clinton]].<ref name=e name="ffbio"/>
Wallop died in Big Horn, Wyoming, at the age of seventy-eight of a long illness He was survived by fourth wife, Isabel Brooke Thomasson Ferguson Wallop and his four children from the first marriage.<ref name=NYTobit/>
[[Moderate Republican]] Senator [[Alan Simpson]] recalled his Wyoming colleague as "a highly "principled politician. I never saw him go back on his word," he said. "It was a joy to debate with him, more fun being on his side I'll tell you that than it was on the other side."<ref name=vacaville>Malcolm Wallop Obituary (2011) - Vacaville, CA - The Reporter (legacy.com), accessed July 26, 2021.</ref>
Former Vice President of the United States [[Dick Cheney]], who earlier held Wyoming's single seat in the U.S. House, said of Wallop: "Malcolm was sort of the spark plug, he was the senior guy, and Al [Simpson] and I were delighted to work with him. My record and Malcolm's record were pretty similar in terms of how we voted on the issues."<ref name=vacaville/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallop, Malcolm}}
[[Category:Wyoming]]
[[Category:Ranchers]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:Episcopalians]]