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{{Short description|American politician}}{{Infobox officeholder|
| term_start2         = January 9, 1889
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| party               = [[Republican Party]]
| profession          = [[Politician]], [[lawyer]], [[farmer]], [[investor]]
| spouse              = 
| death_place         = [[Effingham, Illinois]] United States
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1929|5|10|1854|08|20}}
(contracted; show full)82.<ref>{{Cite news|title=The Learning Network|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0112.html#article}}</ref> After Wolf did not get a Cabinet position under President [[Chester A. Arthur|Chester A. Arthur,]] he became a member of the [[Illinois Senate]], from 1885-1889.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/Augustus-Bernard-Wolf.html|title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Augustus Bernard Wolf}}</ref>


=== '''1896 Illinois gubernatorial election''' ===
Wolf ran against incumbent [[Illinois]] Democratic Governor, John Peter Altgeld. He ran for the Republican nomination alongside U.S. Congressman Albert J. Hopkins, Springfield's Dr. Joseph Robbins, and the [[Illinois Treasurer|Illinois State Treasurer]], John Riley Tanner. 

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