Alice Wolf
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Alice K. Wolf has been the Massachusetts
Massachusetts
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 State Representative for the 25th Middlesex
Middlesex County, Massachusetts
-National protected areas:* Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge* Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge* Longfellow National Historic Site* Lowell National Historical Park* Minute Man National Historical Park* Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge...

 District since 1996. She also served as mayor
Mayor
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 of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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 from 1990 to 1991.

She was born in Vienna
Vienna
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, Austria
Austria
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 on December 24, 1933 into a Jewish family. In 1938 her family moved to the United States
United States
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 fleeing the Nazis. She graduated from Simmons College
Simmons College
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 and then the John F. Kennedy School of Government
John F. Kennedy School of Government
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