Louis Wolsey (1877–1953), born in in Midland, Michigan, was a Reform movement rabbi in the United States. He graduated from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1894 and from the University of Cincinnati in 1899. That same year he was ordained by HUC after which he took the pulpit of Congregation B'nai Israel (Little Rock, Arkansas). In 1907, he became rabbi of Anshe Chesed Congregation (Cleveland, Ohio). In 1925, he came to serve Congregation Rodeph Shalom (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Rabbi Wolsey took post-graduate courses at the University of Chicago, Western Reserve University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He received an honorary D.D. degree from Hebrew Union College in 1939. While living in Little Rock, he was a member of the board of education from 1906 to 1907 and chaplain general of the Arkansas State Guard in 1906. In Cleveland, he was a member of the Charter Commission in 1920 and president of the Cleveland Society of Sociology from 1922 to 1923. When he was in Philadelphia, he was chairman of the Mayor's Vice and Crime Commission in 1937 and recommended the state of Pennsylvania reform the parole system. He served as president of the Hebrew Union College Alumni Association from 1913 to 1914, president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) from 1925 to 1927, chancellor of the Jewish Chautauqua Society from 1925 to 1938, a charter member of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, chairman of the CCAR Committee on the Union Hymmal (which published a revision in 1936), and a co-founder of the Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital in Hot Springs, Arkansas. In 1942 he was part of a group of rabbis who opposed the CCAR's resolution for the establishment of a Palestinian Jewish military unit. He became vice-president of the American Council for Judaism but resigned in 1946 to protest its opposition towards unrestricted Jewish immigration to Palestine. He resigned from the Council itself in 1948 demanding that the Council itself be dissolved finding it irreligious and anti-humanitarian in the face of Jewish refugees after the Holocaust.