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Lester L. Wolff, Democrat who influenced U.S.-Taiwan policy, dies at 102 Harrison Smith © James K.W. Atherton/The Washington Post Rep. Lester L. Wolff (D-N.Y.) at a 1977 news conference in Washington. Lester L. Wolff, an eight-term congressman who championed Great Society legislation, helped strengthen America’s military and cultural bond with Taiwan and later leveraged his experience in Asian affairs to work as a lobbyist for Myanmar’s repressive military government, died May 11 at a hospital in Syosset, N.Y. He was 102. His son, Bruce Wolff, confirmed the death but did not provide a cause. Mr. Wolff, a New York Democrat who represented parts of Queens and the Gold Coast of Long Island, was the oldest living veteran of Congress. Born at the close of World War I, he came to prominence as a marketing executive and the mustached host of a public-affairs television show in the 1950s.

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