Abram B. Olin

Abram Baldwin Olin ( born September 21, 1808 in Shaftsbury, Vermont; † July 7 1879 in Sligo, Maryland) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1857 and 1863 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Gideon Olin was his father.

Career

Abram Baldwin Olin was born about four years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Shaftsbury in Bennington County and grew up there. During this time he attended community schools and then graduated in 1835 from Williams College in Williamstown (Massachusetts ). He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1838 and then began to practice in Troy. Between 1844 and 1852 he worked as a Recorder in the City of Troy. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1856 for the 35th Congress, he was in the 13th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Russell Sage on March 4, 1857. He was re-elected twice in a row and then retired after March 3, 1863 the Congress of.

On March 11, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln appointed him associate judge (associate justice) at the New York Supreme Court for the District of Columbia - a position which he held until his resignation on January 13, 1879. He died on July 7, 1879 at Sligo in Montgomery County and was then buried in the plot of the Danforth family, which is adjacent to the West Lawn Cemetery in Williamstown.