“to do what we can to recognize the contexts that are different in every community.”
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Tom Wolf
Thomas Westerman Wolf is an American politician and businessman who served as the 47th governor of Pennsylvania from 2015 to 2023. He previously served as chairman and CEO of his business, The Wolf Organization, and later as secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue from April 2007 to November 2008.
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business · Governor of Pennsylvania from 2015 to 2023 · politician · entrepreneur · businessperson · governor · also Tom Wolf, Thomas W. Wolf, Thomas Wolf, Wolf
Born 17 November 1948 · Q7794795
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additional details on indoor and outdoor gatherings will be released next week.
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2026· 4 entries
“additional details on indoor and outdoor gatherings will be released next week.”
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“So we’re starting that conversation,”
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“But the voters have spoken, and Pennsylvania wants to change the rules. And I think it’s incumbent upon us to the best we possibly can to make those rules work.”
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2023· 1 entry
Announced that he and his wife were moving to Philadelphia
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2022· 2 entries
Wolf signed 66 new laws sent to him by the legislature addressing a range of issues, including new initiatives designed to curb the opioid epidemic along with clean energy tax credits and cracking down on turnpike toll s
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Published video “Message from Governor Wolf Ahead of the 2022-23 Budget Address”.
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2021· 3 entries
Limiting disaster declarations from 90 to 21 days, transferring power to extend emergency orders from the governor to the state legislature and permitting a simple majority of the legislature to terminate such a declarat
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Published video “PA Unites Against COVID - Mask Up PA”.
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Published video “First Lady Introduces One Lens”.
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2020· 2 entries
Published video “2020 Census | Shape Your Future In PA”.
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Wolf confirmed there were two known cases of COVID-19 in Delaware County and in Wayne County
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2019· 2 entries
After a statewide listening tour by Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman showed broad support for legalization
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Wolf signed reforms into law that would allow no-excuse mail-in ballot voting
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2018· 2 entries
Campaign: 2018 election.
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And was unopposed in the Democratic primary
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2017· 1 entry
After treatment, Wolf's spokesperson announced in January 2017 that Wolf's physician had given him a "clean bill of health".
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2016· 3 entries
Wolf announced the awarding of "It's On Us PA" grants of $1 million to 36 post-secondary schools in the state to combat sexual violence on their campuses
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Wolf announced that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer
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“s heroin and opioid addiction crisis a statewide emergency. Pennsylvania became the eighth state to do so. Such a declaration lets Pennsylvania officials”
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2015· 3 entries
Wolf vetoed a budget the Pennsylvania General Assembly submitted to him, causing a budget dispute between the governor's office and the legislature
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With the inaugural ceremony occurring in front of the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg
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Career landmark: Governor of Pennsylvania (2015–2023).
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2014· 3 entries
Election won: 2014 election.
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Campaign: 2014 election.
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And defeated Republican incumbent Tom Corbett in the general election by a margin of almost 10 percentage points
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2013· 1 entry
Wolf announced his candidacy for governor of Pennsylvania in the 2014 election
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2006· 1 entry
Wolf was nominated by then-governor Ed Rendell in January 2007 to be the secretary of revenue of Pennsylvania
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1976· 1 entry
“claim that it would provide increased funding in certain areas without raising taxes. A point of dispute in the budget process was the proposed privatization of Pennsylvania”
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1975· 1 entry
Wolf married Frances Donnelly, an oil painter
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1948· 1 entry
Born 1948-11-17.
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