Gideon Olin

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

Career

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

In 1791 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Vermont. Between 1793 and 1798, Olin was also a member of the consulting staff of the Governor of Vermont. In the congressional elections of 1802 was Gideon Olin as the candidate of the Democratic-Republican Party in the first district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1803 the successor to the changing in the Senate Israel Smith. After a re-election in 1804 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1807 two legislative sessions.

After his time in Congress, Olin worked as a judge until 1811. Then he went back to his agricultural affairs. He died in 1823 in Shaftsbury. Gideon Olin was the father of Abram B. Olin (1808-1879), who represented 1857-1863 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was also the uncle of Henry Olin, who also was a congressman from Vermont between December 1824 and March 1825 and served as Vice- Governor of that State, 1827-1830.