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Leo Wolfson, Zionist Revisionist Leader, Dies in New York; Was 76

June 5, 1959
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Leo Wolfson, attorney and chairman of the national executive committee of the Zionist-Revisionists of America, died yesterday at the age of 76.

He was a founder and for 20 years president of the United Rumanian Jews of America, a national director of the Joint Distribution Committee, and a member of the American Zionist Council. He had also served in the Jewish National Fund, the Jewish Foundation Fund and the Zionist League of New York. Born in Rumania, he came to the United States in 1900.

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