{{short description|American politician (1905–1977)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{infobox officeholder |name=Ray Wolfe |image=Ray Wolfe.jpg |office=16th Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska |term_start=April 10, 1944 |term_end=April 9, 1945 |predecessor=William Alex Stolt |successor=John E. Manders |birth_date={{birth date|1905|9|23}} |birth_place=West Liberty, Iowa, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1977|10|5|1905|9|23}} |death_place=Anchorage, Alaska, U.S. |party=Republican |occupation=Politician }} '''Ray Wolfe''' (September 23, 1905 – October 5, 1977) was an American politician who served as the 16th mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, from 1944 to 1945.
==Biography== Ray G. Wolfe was born September 23, 1905, in West Liberty, Iowa. He moved to Alaska in January 1927 to work for his uncle in a sheet metal shop at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and C Street. In the years to follow, he purchased the business and converted it into ''Wolfe's Department Store''.
Wolfe was elected to a single term as Mayor of Anchorage in 1944. In 1960, he ran a failed campaign for a seat in the Alaska Senate as a Republican.
In 1972, Wolfe sold the department store to his nephew, Jerry Wolf, who renamed it ''Wolf's Home Furnishings''.
Wolfe died the morning of October 5, 1977 at Providence Hospital in Anchorage.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1977-10-07 |title=Ex-Anchorage mayor dies |pages=2 |work=Fairbanks Daily News-Miner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102577216/ex-anchorage-mayor-dies/ |access-date=2022-05-26}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Refbegin}} * {{Citation | title = Former Mayor Of City Dies | newspaper = Anchorage Times | pages = 1 | date = October 6, 1977 }} {{Refend}}
{{s-start}} {{succession box | before=William Alex Stolt| title=Mayor of Anchorage| years=1944–1945| after=John E. Manders }} {{s-end}}
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