John Olver
John Walter Olver ( born September 3, 1936 in Honesdale, Wayne County, Pennsylvania) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented the state of Massachusetts from 1991 to 2013 in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Life
John Olver studied for his first degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, where he 18 -year-old earned his bachelor's degree. This was followed by the master's degree at Tufts University and the Ph.D. in chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Later he was even chemistry professor at Franklin Technical Institute in Boston, MIT and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Olver has lived since 1963 with his wife Rose, a college lecturer, in Amherst.
Policy
The Democrat Olver spent 1969-1973 first two terms in the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, and was subsequently the State Senate until 1991. On 18 February this year, Silvio O. Conte died, who had represented the 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts since 1959 as a Republican in Washington, shortly after the beginning of his 17th term. Olver went to the election to Republican Steven Pierce and won scarce, which he won in 1895 as the first Democrat this seat.
He decided the next regular election in 1992 and was re-elected ever since. The earlier the Republicans attributed 1st electoral district, next to the cities like Pittsfield and Fitchburg comprises mainly rural areas in the west of the state, has become a stronghold of the Democratic Party. So in 1994, situated in the Republican revolution, not even a rival candidate. Only in 1996 the election was somewhat scarce, as Jane Swift took for the Republicans. Last Olver was confirmed in 2010 with 60 percent of the vote.
In the elections in November 2012 Olver not stand for re- election, what with the fact that according to the United States Census 2010, a Congressional district in Massachusetts has been dropped. On January 3, 2013 Olver resigned from the Congress.
Political positions
Olver expressed repeatedly critical of the restrained U.S. involvement in the Darfur conflict. He was one of five congressmen who protested on 28 April 2006 in front of the Sudanese Embassy against the regime of the African state and were therefore temporarily taken into custody; this also included Tom Lantos, Sheila Jackson Lee, Jim McGovern and Jim Moran.
After the 2004 presidential election Olver was one of the 31 Democratic members of Congress, following irregularities the election results in Ohio is not recognized. Prior to the 2008 presidential election, he was super delegate to the Democratic National Convention and supported the future President Barack Obama.
John Olver is considered a representative of the liberal wing of the Democrats. The American Civil Liberties Union, a liberal civil rights organization, classified him in their assessment of his voting record at 95 percent approval a; In contrast, he reached with the American Conservative Union is a match of two percent. For abortions, he is a proponent of pro-choice policy.