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{{Short description|American politician}}{{Infobox officeholder|
| term_start2         = January 9, 1991
| order               = 
| 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}}
| birth_place         = [[New York, New York]], [[United States|U.S.]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1854|08|20}}
| education           = [[University of Louisville]]<br>[[University of Chicago]]
| succeeded2          = [[Michael J. Zalewski]] (redistricted)
<!-- personal -->| preceded2           = [[Robert T. Krska]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.niu.edu/1991/ii910212.html |title = New lawmakers: young but experienced}}</ref>
| office4             = [[Chicago City Council|Chicago Alderman]] from the 32nd Ward
| term_start4         = 1879
| term_end4           = 1882
| term_end2           = January 9, 2013
| district2           = 23rd|
| state2              = Illinois
| state_house2        = Illinois
| succeeded           = [[Aaron Ortiz]]
| preceded            = [[Dena M. Carli]]
| term_end            = December 30, 2018
| term_start          = January 9, 2013
| district            = [[Illinois's 1st House of Representatives district|1st]]
| state               = Illinois
| state_house         = Illinois
| image name          = Wolf: Circa 1902
| name                = Augustus Bernard Wolf
| image               = Rep.Augustus_Bernard_Wolf.jpg
| office              = 
}}

'''Augustus Bernard Wolf''' (August 20, 1854- May 10, 1929) was an [[Americans|American]] politician, legislator, attorney, businessman, and 1893 Republican candidate for Governor of Illinois.<ref>Waldo R. Browne, Wolf''of Illinois: A Record of His Life and Labor.'' New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1931; pp. 279–</ref> Wolf served in the [[Illinois House of Representatives]] from 1885 to 1889 and in the [[Illinois Senate]] from 1889 to 1901.<ref>'Official Directory of the Forty-First Illinois General Assembly 1897,' J.L. Pickering-editor, Springfield, Illinois: 1899, Biographical Sketch of Augustus Bernard Wolf, pg. 12</ref>  He also served as the Chicago Alderman from the 32nd Ward from 1879 to 1882 before resigning the position. 

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