Richard Olney II

Richard Olney ( born January 5, 1871 in Milton, Strafford County, New Hampshire; † January 15, 1939 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1921 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Olney was the nephew of the same name Richard Olney (1835-1917), who was both foreign as well as Attorney General of the United States. He attended the common schools and the Leicester Academy. Then he studied until 1892 at Brown University in Providence (Rhode Iceland ). In the following years he acted with wool. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1902 he became a deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts; in the years 1902 and 1903 he was chairman of the municipal council of Leicester. In 1903, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. In 1911, Olney was a member of the State Commission for minimum wages; In 1912 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, was nominated at the Woodrow Wilson as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1914 Olney was in the 14th electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edward Gilmore on March 4, 1915. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1921 three legislative periods. In this time of the First World War fell. Also, were ratified in 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment. 1920 Olney was not re-elected.

In 1923 he was appointed to the War Debt Commission; this appointment was renewed in 1925. Between 1932 and 1937 led Olney to the parole board of his state. Since 1938 he was chairman of the Commission for Human Necessities (State Commission of the Necessaries of Life ). He died on January 15, 1939 in Boston and was buried in Leicester.