Thomas Westerman Wolf (born November 17, 1948) is a Pennsylvania politician and businessman who has been the state’s 47th governor since January 20, 2015. He was a member of the Democratic Party when he defeated Republican incumbent Tom Corbett in the 2014 gubernatorial election, and he was re-elected by a margin of 17.1 percent in 2018.

Tom Wolf served as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue from April 2007 to November 2008, as well as an executive in his family’s business, prior to his election as Governor.

What is the Net Worth of Tom Wolf?

• Tom Wolf’s salary is expected to be around $194,850 in 2020.
• Gov. Tom Wolf and first lady Frances Wolf earned more than $4.5 million in 2015, according to a governor’s spokesman, and they donated nearly a third of that to charities.
• His $201,319 statutory gubernatorial salary, which he has chosen to donate to the State Employee Combined Appeal, a charitable-giving campaign run in state offices, was included in the couple’s earnings.
• He also received $32,044 from the Wolf Organization as a final payment of income earned in 2014.
• Frances Wolf earned $12,386 in business income, which helped the couple’s earnings for the year.

Tom Wolf’s height, weight, and age

• Tom Wolf will be 71 years old in 2020.
• He has a height of 5 feet and 9 inches.
• He weighs approximately 70 kg.
• His eyes are dark brown, and he has blonde hair.
• He wears a shoe size 9 in the United Kingdom.

Wife of Tom Wolf

• Tom Wolf has been married to Frances Donnelly since 1975, as of 2020.
• Frances, his wife, met at school and married in 1975.
• They also have two adult daughters.
• His previous dating history is not public knowledge.

Tom Wolf’s Childhood and Education

• Wolf was born on November 17, 1948, in Mount Wolf, Pennsylvania, in the United States.
• He is of white ethnicity and has American nationality.
• His father is a business executive named William Trout Wolf, and his mother is the late Cornelia Rohlman.
• He was raised Methodist but now attends the Episcopal Church.
• Wolf received his education at The Hill School, a boarding school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1967.
• He went on to earn a B.A. in government, magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1972, an M.Phil. in political science from the University of London in 1978, and a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981.
• Wolf joined the Peace Corps while a student at Dartmouth and spent two years in India.
• His dissertation on the United States House of Representatives was named the best of 1981 by the American Political Science Association after he received his Ph.D.
• Wolf declined an interview for a tenure-track faculty position at Harvard University in order to begin his career at The Wolf Organization as manager of a True Value store owned by the company.

Tom Wolf’s Professional Career

• According to his resume, he purchased The Wolf Organization with two partners in 1985.
• Wolf served on an economic development board and the Pennsylvania Legislative Commission on Urban Schools during Governor Robert P. Casey’s administration.
• Wolf was appointed Secretary of Revenue of Pennsylvania by then-Governor Ed Rendell in January 2007, after selling his company to a private equity firm in 2006.
• He held that position on Rendell’s cabinet from his confirmation by the Pennsylvania State Senate in April 2007 until his resignation in November 2008.
• He had planned to run for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2010 but decided against it in order to repurchase the Wolf Organization, which was in financial trouble.
• Wolf remained an executive in The Wolf Organization until he was elected governor.
• He served as chairman and CEO until December 2013, when he stepped down from the latter position to focus on his gubernatorial campaign, and then from the board entirely in December 2014, following his election.
• He is the first governor of Pennsylvania to be elected twice while losing both times in his home county.

lf Factual Information

• Wolf took office as the 47th Governor of Pennsylvania on January 20, 2015, following the expiration of Corbett’s term, with the inaugural ceremony held in front of the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg.
• He chose not to live in the Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence and instead commuted from his home in York.

Quick facts:

You may also like: Sarah Palin, Sean Duffy