James "Jim" DeWolfe (born May 14, 1949) is a former political figure in

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, Canada. He represented

Pictou East Pictou East is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Its Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) since the 2013 election is Tim Houston of the Progressive Conservativ ...

in the

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from 1998 to 2006 as a Progressive Conservative. DeWolfe was born in 1949 in

New Glasgow, Nova Scotia New Glasgow is a town in Pictou County, in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It is situated on the banks of the East River of Pictou, which flows into Pictou Harbour, a sub-basin of the Northumberland Strait. The town's population was 9,075 ...

, the son of William Elliott DeWolfe and Hazel Macdonald. He was educated at

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and the

Technical University of Nova Scotia The Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUNS) was a Canadian university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. TUNS was officially founded as the Nova Scotia Technical College on 25 April 1907. On 1 April 1997 it was merged into Dalhousie Universit ...

. In 1968, he married Diane Breen. He was employed by the

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from 1967 to 1968 and then worked as a cartographer with the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources for 29 years. DeWolfe entered provincial politics in the 1998 election, defeating Liberal incumbent Wayne Fraser by more than 1500 votes in the Pictou East riding. He was re-elected in the

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, and 2003 elections. On May 1, 2006, DeWolfe announced he was leaving politics and would not reoffer in the 2006 election.

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* 1949 births Living people People from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia MLAs St. Francis Xavier University alumni 21st-century Canadian politicians {{ProgressiveConservative-NovaScotia-MLA-stub