Leonard G. Wolf

Leonard George Wolf ( * October 29, 1925 in Mazomanie, Dane County, Wisconsin, † March 28, 1970 in Washington DC) was an American politician. Between 1959 and 1961 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Leonard Wolf attended the common schools and served in the final stages of World War II in the U.S. Navy. He was employed in the Pacific. After the war he continued his studies until 1949 at the University of Wisconsin, where he studied economic agriculture. Then he moved to Elkader, Iowa. He worked there from 1952 to 1958 as a feed dealer. At the same time he held seminars and lectures on agricultural topics.

Wolf was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1956 he ran unsuccessfully in the second constituency of Iowa against Republican incumbent Henry O. Talle for Congress. Two years later he was but then voted against Talle in the House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1959. But since he already lost in the next election against James E. Bromwell, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1961.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Wolf worked in social missions abroad. Until 1965 he worked for the International Cooperation Administration Mission in Brazil. After that, he was until 1967 the coordinator of the children hunger aid to Latin America. In 1968 he was in India, where he coordinated the famine relief after a major drought. He then served as a director of development aid organization Freedom from Hunger. Leonard Wolf died on March 28, 1870 in Washington, and was buried in his birthplace of Mazomanie.

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