Gideon Olin

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Gideon Olin (born November 2, 1743 in East Greenwich , Rhode Island Colony , † January 21, 1823 in Shaftsbury , Vermont ) was an American politician . Between 1803 and 1807 he represented the first constituency of the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Gideon Olin only had a modest education and initially worked in agriculture. In 1776 he moved to Vermont, where he settled in Shaftsbury. During the War of Independence he served as a major in the Continental Army . After the war, Olin began a political career. Between 1778 and 1799 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Vermont several times with a few interruptions ; from 1788 to 1793 he was president of this body. Between 1781 and 1798, Olin was also an associate judge in the Bennington County District Court . There he later became presiding judge from 1807 to 1811.

In 1791 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Vermont constitution. Between 1793 and 1798, Olin was also a member of the Advisory Board of the Vermont Governor . In the 1802 congressional elections, Gideon Olin was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC as a candidate for the Democratic Republican Party in the first district of Vermont . There he came on March 4, 1803, the successor of the Senate changing Israel Smith to. After re-election in 1804, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1807 .

After serving in Congress, Olin served as a judge until 1811. Then he returned to his agricultural affairs. He died in Shaftsbury in 1823. Gideon Olin was the father of Abram B. Olin (1808–1879), who represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1857 and 1863 . He was also the uncle of Henry Olin , who was also a congressman from Vermont between December 1824 and March 1825 and served as lieutenant governor of that state between 1827 and 1830 .

Web links

  • Gideon Olin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Olin, Gideon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH East Greenwich , Rhode Island Colony
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1823
Place of death Shaftsbury , Vermont