# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-wolpe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:22:23.401Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-wolpe"
name: "Howard Wolpe"
slug: "howard-wolpe"
description: "Howard Eliot Wolpe was an American politician who served as a seven-term U.S. representative from Michigan and presidential special envoy to the African Great Lakes Region in the Clinton administration, where he led the United States delegation to the Arusha and Lusaka peace talks, which aimed to end civil wars in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He returned to the U.S. State Department as Special Advisor to the Secretary for Africa's Great Lakes Region. Previously, he had served as Director of the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and of the center's Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity. While at the center, Wolpe directed post-conflict leadership training programs in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia."
tagline: "American politician (1939-2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howard_Wolpe_99th_Congress_1985.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1939-11-03"
deathDate: "2011-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.276314666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Wolpe"
    title: "Howard Wolpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%BE"
    title: "هوارد ولپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%88%D9%88%D9%84%D9%BE"
    title: "هووارد وولپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Wolpe"
    title: "Howard Wolpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Wolpe"
    title: "Howard Wolpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Wolpe"
    title: "Howard Wolpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q995192"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump