John+S.+Wold


 * John S. Wold **
 * Republican**
 * Legislator 1957**
 * US Senator 1965-1971**

John S. Wold was born in New Jersey in 1916. He moved to Wyoming in 1948, after professional residence in Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas. A graduate of Union College, Schenectady, New York, with an MS in geology from Cornell University, he spent his junior college year as an exchange student at St. Andrews University in Scotland. He began his public service career in 1957 as a Representative to the Wyoming Legislature from Natrona County. While serving there he chaired the House Labor Committee and was later a charter member of the Wyoming Fair Employment Practices Commission. He was Wyoming Republican candidate for the US Senate in 1964 and 1970 and was a member of the Ninety-First Congress, at large from Wyoming from 1965-1971. He served as a two-term State GOP chairman from 1960-1964 and Republican State Finance Chairman, 1971-1973. Under his leadership in 1962, the party scored one of its most successful victories, winning all seven of Wyoming's top elective offices. He is a past chairman of the Western States Republican State Chairman's Association, and he has served on the 15-member Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee. He is presently living in Casper, where he is engaged in coal, uranium, oil, and gas mineral exploration and production as an independent geologist. (1974)