1. George Wolf was the seventh governor of Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1835.
10 Facts About George Wolf
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George Wolf was admitted to the bar in 1799 and commenced practice in Easton, Pennsylvania.
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George Wolf became a member of the Democratic Republican Party at the beginning of Thomas Jefferson's administration, and was appointed postmaster of Easton, where he served n 1802 and 1803.
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George Wolf was a clerk of the orphans' court of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, from 1803 to 1809, and a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1814.
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George Wolf was reelected to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses.
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George Wolf took the protectionist side in debates on the tariff.
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George Wolf was in office during the 1834 Philadelphia race riot.
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George Wolf lost the governor's seat to the Anti-Mason candidate Ritner in 1835, owing to the defection of a part of the Democrats, who voted for Henry A Muhlenberg.
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George Wolf advocated the establishment of a general system of common schools, and by strenuous efforts accomplished this reform where former governors had failed.
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From 1827 to 1840, George Wolf was a trustee of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.