What key details about john s. wold can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: john schiller wold -lrb- born august 31 , 1916 -rrb- is a business leader and republican politician from wyoming who served a single term in the united states house of representatives from 1969 to 1971 . he holds the distinction of being the first professional geologist to serve in congress . wold is currently the oldest living former republican member of the u.s. house of representatives . a brother of the alpha delta phi , wold earned degrees from union college in schenectady , new york in 1938 and cornell university in 1939 . during world war ii , he served as a consulting physicist and gunnery officer for the u.s. navy . wold served in the wyoming house of representatives from 1957 to 1959 and was the state 's republican chairman from 1960 to 1964 . in 1964 , he ran for the u.s. senate against freshman incumbent democrat gale mcgee , who won by a 54 % to 46 % margin . in 1968 , he narrowly defeated on-again , off-again congressman william henry harrison in the republican primary before winning a decisive general election victory . two years later , he gave up his house seat to run against incumbent sen. gale mcgee again . he lost the race by 56 % to 44 % and returned to the private sector , but has remained active as a republican political donor . wold is the founder of wold oil properties , inc. , in casper , wyoming . the company is currently operated by his sons . in 2002 , wold made a $ 20 million donation to his alma mater , union college -- the biggest in its history . wold 's father , peter wold , was a professor of physics at union college from 1920 to 1945 . the american heritage center at the university of wyoming named wold as the '' wyoming citizen of the century '' in the minerals , gas , and oil category in 1999 .
- preceded is william henry harrison- party is republican- district is at-large- term end is january 3 , 1971- succeeded is teno roncalio- birth date is 31 august 1916- state is wyoming- name is john s. wold- term start is january 3 , 1969- birth place is east orange , new jersey- alma mater is union college , cornell university