Paul Wesselhoft

Wesselhöft has described himself as fiscally conservative.[3]

Paul Wesselhöft, M.A., M.Div., a fifth-generation Oklahoman, was elected as Representative of Oklahoma in the Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s national legislature, District 9, Oklahoma on February 2, 2008, age 60. He was also elected Delegate to the 65th annual National Congress of American Indians. Re-elected to the Citizen Potawatomi Nation national legislature. Currently he is still serving in the legislature.

Wesselhöft is a retired U.S. Army Chaplain and ordained Southern Baptist minister.[3] He is married to Judy Albright (March 21, 1976) and has two children, Justin and Holly.[4]

Wesselhöft is Native American, and is an elected Representative for District 9 of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.[5][6] Wesselhöft established the Oklahoma Native American Caucus within the Oklahoma State Legislature with fellow Representative Lisa Johnson-Billy.[7]

Publications: Wesselhöft, who publishes under the penname, Paul Chrisstarlon Wesselhöft, was the first place winner, for fiction for The Scar and first place for poetry for both Requiem and The Quill. These writings are published in the Oklahoma City Community College’s literary journal, Absolute in 2002 and 2003.

Author of The Redfeather Pentalogy (fiction), and Eros: Penultimate Love (thematic poetry). Websites: paulwesselhoft.com and Archway Publishing from Simon & Schuster.

In 2018 he won first place in fiction at the annual Red Sneakers/Write Well, Sell Well writers conference in Oklahoma City. His story, Sophie, was published in Conclave, 2018, a literary journal. Winner, first place in fiction humor at annual Writer’s Con 2019. Circumstance is published in Conclave, 2020. 3rd Place in poetry for Requiem at the 2019 writers contest by Oklahoma City Writers, Inc. 3rd place at the Oklahoma Federation of Writers for Short-short fiction with Ice.

He is the author of numerous articles, essays, poems and short stories to include Distorted Image about women and pornography. He is published in various state and local newspapers and magazines, and in many news stories, articles and interviews published in virtually every newspaper throughout Oklahoma.

Persian Gulf War: Wesselhöft was a combat veteran of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. He was directly involved in the front line ground offensive for the liberation of Kuwait (1990-1991). He served as the 75 TH Field Artillery Brigade Chaplain and Supervisor of four battalion chaplains and numerous staff.

Wesselhöft was an Airborne U.S. Ranger Chaplain serving the 75th Infantry Battalion in Savanah, Georgia. In 1967-1968, he also served as a private and sergeant during the Vietnam War era. He was first honorably discharged in 1968 and retired honorably in 1995.