Harry Benjamin Wolf

Harry Benjamin Wolf (June 16, 1880 – February 17, 1944) was an American politician and Congressman from Maryland.

Formation Born in Baltimore, Maryland from Jacob Wolf and Mollie Furstenberg Wolf, he had two other siblings.

From 1911, Wolf, along with other lawyers, was involved in a scheme to get cheaper housemaids for prominent Baltimore families by using Habeas corpus writs for Rosewood Center mentally challenged inmates. Once released into the custody of these families, they were often mistreated, with a low or even no pay, and sometimes abandoned in the streets when these families complained about their low productivity, or else dying from the poor labor conditions. This scheme was denounced by Leo Kanner in 1937.

Politics Wolf served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1906 to 1908.

He was nominated by the local section of the Democratic party, and was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress, serving from March 4, 1907, to March 3, 1909. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress, being beaten by John Kronmiller, and resumed the practice of his profession and other business interests in Baltimore.

He was named grand master of the Independent Order of B'rith Shalom.

Death He died in Baltimore, and is interred in the Hebrew Friendship Cemetery.

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