Henry Olin

Henry Olin (born May 7, 1768 in Shaftsbury , Bennington County , Province of New York , †  August 16, 1837 in Salisbury , Vermont ) was an American politician . Between 1824 and 1825 he represented the third constituency of the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Olin attended the public schools in his home country and then studied law. After being admitted to the bar, he started working in his new profession. In 1788 he moved to Leicester , Vermont. Politically, he joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . Between 1799 and 1804, from 1806 to 1815 and between 1817 and 1819 and again from 1822 to 1824 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Vermont . In 1814, 1822 and 1822 he was a delegate to meetings to revise the Vermont state constitution. Between 1801 and 1824 he was also a District Court judge in Addison County . From 1821 to 1822, Olin was also a member of the Vermont government council.

After the death of Congressman Charles Rich , Olin was elected as his successor in the US House of Representatives in the necessary by-election in the third district of Vermont. There he ended the legislative period that had begun between December 13, 1824 and March 3, 1825. Olin was Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1827 to 1830 . He died in August 1837 and was buried in Leicester. Henry Olin was the nephew of Gideon Olin (1743-1828), who also sat for Vermont in Congress between 1803 and 1807.

Web links

• Henry Olin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry Olin in the database of Find a Grave (English)