FENWICK, MILLICENT VERNON HAMMOND
Millicent Vernon Hammond Fenwick represented New Jersey’s Fifth District in Congress
from 1975 to 1983. A woman who defied conventional political labels, she distinguished herself as an outspoken crusader for HUMAN RIGHTS.
Fenwick was born February 25, 1910, in
Manhattan, to a wealthy and prominent family.
Her father, Ogden H. Hammond, was a success-
ful financier. Her mother, Mary Picton Stevens
Hammond, descended from a distinguished
early American family whose forebears included
a colonel in the Revolutionary Army. The family
was committed to public service. Fenwick’s
father carried out this commitment by serving
two terms in the New Jersey House of Represen-
tatives and later as Calvin Coolidge’s ambassa-
dor to Spain. Her mother was on a mission of
mercy to establish a hospital for WORLD WAR I
victims in Paris when she perished in the 1915
sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania.
Fenwick’s formal education was fragmen-
tary. She attended the Foxcroft School, in
