Where was Frank Wolf (politician) educated from 1961 to 1965?
Frank Wolf ( politician ) Frank Rudolph Wolf ( born January 30 , 1939 ) is an American politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives , as a member of the Republican Party , from January 1981 to his retirement in January 2015 . He announced in December 2013 that he would not run for re-election in 2014 , and retired at the conclusion of his 17th term in office . At the time of his retirement , he was the dean of the states congressional delegation , having served for 34 consecutive years . Early life , education , and early political career . Born and raised in West Philadelphia , Wolf overcame an early speech impediment which caused him to stutter . Attending Pennsylvania State University , he was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity , received a degree in political science and subsequently earned a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington , D.C. . He then joined the United States Army as a reservist and became a lawyer for the military . Wolf entered politics in 1968 , at the age of 29 , when he became a legislative assistant to Edward Biester , the Republican congressman from Pennsylvanias 8th congressional district . From 1971 to 1975 , Wolf served as an assistant to Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton . U.S . House of Representatives . Elections . During the 1976 presidential election year , Wolfs first campaign for Virginias 10th congressional district ended with his loss in the Republican primary to Vince Callahan by 45%–42% . Two years later , amidst the 1978 midterm elections , he won the Republican nomination unopposed , but lost the general election to the incumbent Democrat , Joseph L . Fisher , 53%–47% . In the 1980 House election , when Ronald Reagans decisive victory in the presidential election brought with it a 34-seat swing in the House , Wolfs third run proved to be successful ; he won the Republican primary with 75% of the vote and then defeated Fisher in a rematch , 51%–49% . In the 1982 midterms , Wolf won re-election with 53% of the vote . He would never face another contest anywhere near that close . Wolf did not face a Democratic opponent in 1994 and 2000 , winning both with over 80% of the votes against third party candidates . After 1982 , his closest races were in the Democratic wave elections of 2006 and 2008 . On both occasions he defeated professor Judy Feder , by 57%–41% and 59%–39% , respectively . Those were the only occasions after 1982 that he received below 60 percent of the vote . In 2012 , as Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney carried the district by 1% , Wolf was re-elected by 20% . In September 2013 , it was announced that Wolf was to be challenged in the 2014 election by Democrat Richard Bolger , a Fairfax attorney and small business owner . In December 2013 , Wolf announced his intention to retire from politics , leaving office in January 2015just days before his 76th birthday . He was succeeded by his former aide , Republican State Delegate Barbara Comstock . Wolfs district was significantly redrawn several times during his 34 years in office . For his first six terms , he represented a compact Northern Virginia-based district covering Fairfax , Arlington , and Loudoun counties . The 1990 redistricting by a Democratic Virginia General Assembly drew heavily Democratic Arlington County into the neighboring 8th District , while drawing the more Democratic portions of Fairfax County into the new 11th district . To make up for the loss of population , the 10th was pushed to the west and south to encompass parts of the congressional district held by U.S . Rep . George Allen , which was eliminated to create a black-majority district in accordance with the Voting Rights Act . Allen chose not to challenge Wolf , instead running for Governor of Virginia in 1993 . The district kept approximately the same complexion after the 2000 apportionment by a Republican Virginia General Assembly , but lost territory in the outlying areas of the district to allow for population growth in Fairfax and Loudoun . In 2013 , the Fairfax portion of the district held about 40 percent of the population , Loudoun county held 30 percent , and the remainder of the district at 30 percent . During his final six terms , Wolf was the only Republican representing a district based in the Washington suburbs on either side of the Potomac River . The neighboring 11th district was taken by a Democrat in 2008 , while the last Republican representing a district on the Maryland side , Connie Morella , had been defeated in 2002 . Tenure . Wolf has been especially prominent in three areas : transportation , human rights , and gambling . Before he retired , he was the co-chair of the US Congress Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission , formerly the Human Rights Caucus . Human rights . Wolf has traveled extensively to places around the world where people are suffering , including five times to the Sudan since 1989 . He has advocated for relief of the Darfur genocide . He has also convened conferences in his district to address human rights issues around the world . After the trial of the leadership of the Baháʼí Faith of Iran was announced on February 11 , 2009 , Wolf voiced his deep concern over the systematic persecution of the Baháʼís . On February 13 , Wolf offered a resolution on the subject of the Iranian trial , co-sponsored by seven others , in H . RES . 175 – Condemning the Government of Iran for its state-sponsored persecution of its Baháʼí minority and its continued violation of the International Covenants on Human Rights ; the resolution was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs . The situation in Iran gathered international attention , including defense of Iranian Nobel Laureate attorney Shirin Ebadi in June , after she received threats in April warning her against making speeches abroad , including her defending Irans minority Baháʼí community . On September 30 , 2010 , Wolf spoke against human trafficking during a Black Women United for Action conference at Mount Vernon , George Washingtons historic home . On February 28 , 2014 , along with the Democrat Jackie Speier , Wolf became the co-chair of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Caucus , a group created in response to the ongoing persecution of Ahmadis . On May 9 , 2014 , Wolf introduced the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2014 ( H.R . 4653 ; 113th Congress ) , a bill that would amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to reauthorize the U.S . Commission on International Religious Freedom ( USCIRF ) as an independent federal government advisory body through FY2019 . China . Wolf has vocally criticized the human rights record of China . Around the time of the 1995 International Womens Conference in Beijing , Wolf called for the Most Favored Nation status of China to be revoked , repeating the blood libel that human fetuses were considered a delicacy in China . He was one of the leading congressman trying to stop the grant of permanent MFN status to China in 1999 . When Wolf and Congressman Chris Smith were in Beijing shortly before the 2008 Summer Olympics , the Chinese security service prevented them from participating in a dinner meeting with local human rights lawyers . In the 2011 United States federal budget , Wolf inserted a clause prohibiting NASA and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from any joint scientific activity with China for the remainder of the 2011 fiscal year . Wolf remarked , We dont want to give them the opportunity to take advantage of our technology , and we have nothing to gain from dealing with them . And frankly , it boils down to a moral issue . .. . Would you have a bilateral program with Stalin ? This prohibition resulted in Chinese journalists being denied access to the launching of Space Shuttle Endeavour on the mission STS-134 , that was carrying the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer which was built in part by Chinese scientists . In June 2014 , Wolf got House support for an amendment that would rename the street holding the Chinese embassy ; the amendment would change International Place to Liu Xiaobo Plaza , in honor of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo . Iraq War . During the Bush administration , Wolf voted consistently with the Presidents positions . For example , Wolf voted in favor of military action in Iraq in 2002 . He also voted to make the Patriot Act permanent , opposed requiring Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants for wiretaps within the United States , and supported the president in restricting congressional oversight for CIA interrogations . However , in March 2006 , Congress , at Wolfs suggestion by inserting an earmark into a supplemental appropriation bill , and in a breach with the Bush administration , announced the creation of the Iraq Study Group to reassess the U.S . strategy in Iraq . Social issues . Wolf opposes abortion and subsidized birth control for federal employees . As congressman , Wolf also voted to deny funding to Planned Parenthood . He also opposes the funding for international family planning in developing countries . Wolf also previously asserted that marriage should only be between one man and one woman . As such , he signed a letter supporting the one man one woman issue in the . Wolf sponsored the bill that became the District of Columbia Civil Contempt Imprisonment Limitation Act , , in 1989 and supported the bill that became the Elizabeth Morgan Act in 1996 . Gambling . A 2005 Washington Post article cited opposition to the spread of gambling as one of Wolfs central causes . Wolf sought to revise the regulation process for gambling on Native American reservations . Committee assignments . - Committee on Appropriations - Subcommittee on Commerce , Justice , Science , and Related Agencies ( Chairman ) - Subcommittee on Transportation , Housing and Urban Development , and Related Agencies Caucus memberships . - Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission ( Co-Chair ) - International Conservation Caucus - Sportsmens Caucus In the 109th Congress , Wolf was chairman of Subcommittee on Foreign Operations , Export Financing , and Related Programs , and its ranking minority member in the 110th . He was co-chairman of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus with Jim McGovern , who replaced the late Tom Lantos . Wolf is a member of the Moderate Republican Main Street Partnership . External links . - Videos - at Ethnic Community Campaign Rally , VA , September 9 , 2006 - at GOP Civic Picnic at Vint Hill , September 16 , 2006