On April 2, 2013, Wolf announced his candidacy for governor of Pennsylvania in the 2014 election. See also: 2014 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election He has also served on the boards of the York Jewish Community Center, Memorial Hospital of York and Crispus Attucks of York. Wolf chaired the York County United Way, the York County Community Foundation, the York College board of trustees, and the York County Chamber of Commerce, WITF, the regional public television system, Better York, Historic York, the Housing Council of York, and the Administrative Board of Otterbein United Methodist Church. He served as chairman and chief executive officer until stepping down from the latter position in December 2013 to focus on his gubernatorial campaign and from the board altogether in December 2014 after his election.
Wolf continued to serve as an executive in The Wolf Organization until his election as governor. He had planned to run for governor of Pennsylvania in the 2010 election, but ultimately did not in order to repurchase the Wolf Organization, which was facing bankruptcy. He served in that position in Rendell's cabinet from his April 2007 confirmation by the Pennsylvania State Senate until he resigned in November 2008. Īfter selling his company to a private equity firm in 2006, Wolf was nominated by then-governor Ed Rendell in January 2007 to be the secretary of revenue of Pennsylvania. Casey, Wolf served on an economic development board and on the Pennsylvania Legislative Commission on Urban Schools. During the administration of Governor Robert P. Wolf purchased The Wolf Organization in 1985 with two partners. They married in 1975 and have two adult daughters. He met his wife, Frances, in London, when they were both students. Wolf turned down an opportunity to interview for a tenure-track faculty position at Harvard University to begin his career at The Wolf Organization as manager of a True Value store owned by the company. Īfter earning his Ph.D., his dissertation on the United States House of Representatives was named the best of 1981 by the American Political Science Association. While a student at Dartmouth, Wolf took a leave of absence and joined the Peace Corps, with which he spent over two years in India. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. from the University of London in 1978, and a Ph.D. in government, magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1972, an M.Phil. Wolf attended his local public school through 10th grade and graduated from The Hill School, in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, in 1967.
His hometown was named after his ancestor, who was the town's postmaster. Wolf was born and raised in Mount Wolf, Pennsylvania, the son of Cornelia Rohlman (née Westerman) (1923–2018) and William Trout Wolf (1921–2016), a business executive.
He was succeeded as Governor by fellow Democrat Josh Shapiro. Before his election as governor, Wolf was the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue from April 2007 to November 2008 and Chairman and CEO of his business. A member of the Democratic Party, he defeated Republican incumbent Tom Corbett in the 2014 gubernatorial election and was reelected in 2018 by a margin of 17.1%. Thomas Westerman Wolf (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 47th governor of Pennsylvania from 2015 to 2023.
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