Leonard G. Wolf

Leonard G. Wolf

Leonard Georg Wolf (born 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 US House of Representatives .

Career

Leonard Wolf attended public schools in his home country and served in the US Navy during the final stages of World War II . He was used in the Pacific region. After the war he continued his education until 1949 at the University of Wisconsin , where he studied economic agriculture. He then moved to Elkader , Iowa. There he worked as a feed trader from 1952 to 1958. At the same time he gave technical 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, however, he was elected to the House of Representatives in Washington against Talle, where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1959. But since he lost in the next election to James E. Bromwell , he could only complete one term in Congress until January 3, 1961.

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

Web links

• Leonard G. Wolf in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Leonard G. Wolf in the database of Find a Grave (English)