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Thomas Westerman "Tom" Wolf (born November 17, 1948) is an American businessman and politician who is the 47th and current Governor of Pennsylvania, since taking office on January 20, 2015. A Democrat, he defeated Republican incumbent Tom Corbett in the 2014 gubernatorial election. Previously, Wolf served as the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue from April 2007 until November 2008 and as an executive in his family-owned business.

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Wolf was born on November 17, 1948, in Mount Wolf, Pennsylvania, the son of Cornelia Rohlman (née Westerman) and William Trout "Bill" Wolf, a business executive. Wolf was raised in Mount Wolf, Pennsylvania, which was named after his ancestor, the town's postmaster. He was raised Methodist but is now affiliated with the Episcopal Church.

Wolf graduated from The Hill School, a boarding school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, in 1967. He went on to receive an A.B. in government, magna cum laude, fromDartmouth College in 1972, an M.Phil. from the University of London in 1978, and aPh.D. in political science from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. While a student at Dartmouth, Wolf joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in India. After earning his Ph.D., his dissertation on the U.S. House of Representatives was named the best of 1981 by the American Political Science Association. Wolf turned down an opportunity to interview for a tenure-track faculty position at Harvard University to begin his career at The Wolf Organization as manager of a True Value store owned by the company. He met his wife, Frances, at school and married her in 1975. They have two adult daughters.