John C. Wolfe

John C. Wolfe is the former Chief Speechwriter to former New York Governor George E. Pataki. He has worked as an advertising copywriter, a magazine editor and the Senior Writer for the Monroe County Executive in Rochester. He was Pataki's Chief Speechwriter for nearly ten years. He spent the remaining two years of Pataki's tenure as Senior Writer to the SUNY Chancellor in Albany. In 2007, he retreated to the Adirondacks and worked as a Zoning Officer in Chestertown, New York. His writing was limited to a series of published op-eds in several newspapers, including the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun and the Times of Israel. He began writing about his battle with alcoholism in 2014.