| Date Span: | 1956-1960 |
| Creator: | Wolf, Leonard G. (1916-1970) |
| Extent: | .50 linear feet. |
| Collection Number: | MSC0151 |
| Repository: | University of Iowa Special Collections |
| Summary: | 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. |
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.
Access: This collection is open for research.
Use: Copyright restrictions may apply; please consult Special Collections staff for further information.
Acquisition: These papers were given to the University of Iowa Libraries in 1967 by Mr. Wolf.
Preferred Citation: Leonard G. Wolf Papers, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa.
| Repository: | University of Iowa Special Collections |
| Address: | Special Collections Department University of Iowa Libraries Iowa City, IA 52242 |
| Phone: | 319-335-5921 |
| Curator: | Greg Prickman |
| Email: | lib-spec@uiowa.edu |
| Website: | http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/ |
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