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'''Luke Marshal Wenke''' (born April 15, 1992) is a Libertarian Party activist. He was the Chair of the [[Cattaraugus County Libertarian Party]] from 2018 to 2020. He is also the founder of the Facebook groups Olean Politics and Let’s Bitch About Cuomo. In 2020, he ran for Chair of the [[Libertarian National Committee]]. | '''Luke Marshal Wenke''' (born April 15, 1992) is a Libertarian Party activist. He was the Chair of the [[Cattaraugus County Libertarian Party]] from 2018 to 2020. He is also the founder of the Facebook groups Olean Politics and Let’s Bitch About Cuomo. In 2020, he ran for Chair of the [[Libertarian National Committee]]. He is a Lifetime Libertarian member. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
===Basic Details=== | ===Basic Details=== | ||
Luke Marshal Wenke was born April 15, 1992 at Brooks Memorial Hospital in Dunkirk, New York, to Kevin Wenke and Janet McCaul, who were students at SUNY Fredonia. He grew up in his then-stepfather’s family territory on Bucktooth Run Road just outside of Salamanca, NY — the only American city to lease land from a Native American reservation (Seneca territory). Wenke, being all caucasian by ancestry, still grew up in a native reservation school system learning Seneca customs in his youth. | Luke Marshal Wenke was born April 15, 1992 at Brooks Memorial Hospital in Dunkirk, New York, to Kevin Wenke and Janet McCaul, who were students at SUNY Fredonia. He grew up in his then-stepfather’s family territory on Bucktooth Run Road just outside of Salamanca, NY — the only American city to lease land from a Native American reservation (Seneca territory). Wenke, being all caucasian by ancestry, still grew up in a native reservation school system learning Seneca customs in his youth. He graduated from Salamanca High School in 2010 and attended Jamestown Community College for three semesters as a music major. He was a substitute teacher for the Salamanca, Olean, and Archbishop Walsh school districts. He learned piano tuning from his maternal uncle and he had his first customer in October 2011. Aside from a plethora of brief stints at multiple different employers in his early adulthood, Wenke was a Dominos pizza deliverer from February 2015 until October 27th, 2019 at both the Bradford PA and Olean NY Dominos Pizza. He is currently a driver for several different rideshare apps. He has also stated he is currently working on “solving Biden’s supply chain crisis concerns by taking advantage of a deal made by Trump and Bolsonaro” by bringing his own manufacturing business to Brazil some time in the near future. | ||
===Politics=== | ===Politics=== | ||
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==Organizational Positions== | ==Organizational Positions== | ||
;[[Cattaraugus County Libertarian Party]] | ;[[Cattaraugus County Libertarian Party]] | ||
*Temporary County Chair (August 5, 2018—December 29, 2018) | |||
*Chair (December 29, 2018—May 16, 2020) | |||
[[Category:New York Local Party Chairs]] | [[Category:New York Local Party Chairs]] |