Frank Wolf (politician)

Frank Rudolph Wolf ( born January 30, 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Since 1981 he represents the state of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Wolf studied, among others, at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Pennsylvania State University and Georgetown University, where he studied law. Between 1962 and 1967 he was a member of the Reserve of the United States Army. As a result, he practiced as a private attorney. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1968 to 1971 he was on the staff of Congressman Edward G. Biester from Pennsylvania. He then worked until 1975 for the U.S. Department of Interior. In 1976, he unsuccessfully sought the nomination of his party for the congressional elections. Two years later he was nominated indeed, but then not elected to Congress.

In the elections of 1980, Wolf was finally in the tenth electoral district of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph L. Fisher on January 3, 1981. After previously 15 Re-elections he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Wolf is a member of the Appropriations Committee and two subcommittees. He also sits in three Congressional Caucuses. During the presidency of George W. Bush Wolf supported his policies.