John Wahl, 37, is the youngest GOP state party leader in the country. He also runs a business as a butterfly farmer in Athens, Ala. "This is me, the chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, in his natural habitat," he told NPR during a visit to his butterfly farm. (Quentin Renard Gunn for NPR)
ATHENS, Ala. — John Wahl spends his afternoons tending to the cocoons and fluttering creatures on his butterfly farm.
He can be found building out his butterfly houses, expanding conservation efforts or selling butterflies to zoos and botanical gardens.
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