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Wolf, Leonard G.

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1916-1970

Biography

A Wisconsin native, Leonard George Wolf, moved to Iowa after graduating with a degree in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin, in 1949. He worked as a retail feed dealer in Elkader, Iowa, before being elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth Congress (1959-1961). After an unsuccessful reelection bid, Wolf was appointed special assistant to the director of the International Cooperation Administration Mission in Brazil. In 1966, he became the coordinator for the child feeding program in Latin America. The following year, he coordinated the famine relief program in drought stricken India. In 1968, Wolf was appointed executive director of the American Freedom From Hunger Foundation. Leonard G. Wolf was only forty-four years old when he died on March 28, 1970.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Leonard G. Wolf Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0151
Abstract

U.S. Representative from Iowa and Agency for International Development official. Correspondence, bills and resolutions, newsletters and press releases all related to his one term in Congress.

Dates: 1956-1960