Legislator Details


Howard Eliot Wolpe III
AKA:
Number of sessions served 2
Gender: Male
Age at election: 33

Vital Records Information:

Birth
Date: 11/3/1939
City: Los Angeles, CA
County: Los Angeles County, CA
Country: US
 
Death
Date: 10/25/2011
City: Saugatuck, MI
County: Allegan County, MI
Country: US
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Marital Information:
married then divorced; children: Michael; 2nd marriage to Judith Hollister; she drowned in 2006; married Julianne Fletcher in about 2009

Number of Children: 1


Background

Religion: Jewish
Military Service:
Occupation: professor
Race: Caucasian or White

Education:
graduated from University High School, Los Angeles, 1956; BA, Reed College, Portland, OR, 1960; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1967.

Biographical Sketch:
Assoc. prof., Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 1967-72 and later taught at Michigan State University and Universtiy of Michigan Institute of Public Policy Studies; and as a Visiting Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings Institution, as a Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar, and as a consultant to the World Bank and to the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department. Served as a member of the Kalamazoo City Commission. He was regional representative to U.S. Senator Donald Riegle of Michigan, 1976-78. A resident of Lansing, MI as of 1996. He played a key role in the 1986 passage of the federal anti-apartheid act that imposed economic sanctions on South Africa. As special envoy to Africa's Great Lakes Region under President Clinton, Wolpe supported peace talks that helped bring an end to long-standing civil wars in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo; served as director of the Africa program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Member of the Jaycees.

Notable Facts:
Elected to 7 consecutive Congresses 1979-1993; chairman of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Africa for 10 years. Unsuccessful candidate for Dem. for gov., 1994.


Sessions Served:

Chamber: House
Party: Democratic
Committees Served On: Corrections , Mental Health , Public Health , Social Services & Youth
Postions Held:

City of Residence: Kalamazoo
County of Residence Kalamazoo
District: 46
District Description: Township of Kalamazoo; city of Kalamazoo [tracts 1-10, 11 (Less: Blocks 306-9, 401), 14.01, 15.04 and 18.01) in Kalamazoo County

Date Elected: 11/5/1974
Date Sworn In: 1/8/1975
Date Left Office:

Reason for Leaving Office: Lost Election
End of Term Status: Departed

Maritial Status: Married
Notes: Chair of the Committee on Corrections
Chamber: House
Party: Democratic
Committees Served On: Constitutional Revision & Women's Rights, Mental Health , Social Services and Corrections , Urban Affairs , Youth and Student Participation
Postions Held:

City of Residence: Kalamazoo
County of Residence Kalamazoo
District: 46
District Description:

Date Elected: 11/7/1972
Date Sworn In: 1/10/1973
Date Left Office:

Reason for Leaving Office: N/A
End of Term Status: Re-elected

Maritial Status: Unknown
Notes: Vice-Chair: Social Services and Corrections.

Bibliography:

CongBio p.2084; LATimes 10/31/2011; 2011 HJ p.2604, HR 157; PolGryd