John Olver
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Olver in the 111th United States Congress
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 1st district |
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In office June 18, 1991 – January 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Silvio O. Conte |
| Succeeded by | Richard Neal |
| Member of the Massachusetts Senate from the Franklin and Hampshire district |
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In office January 3, 1973 – June 15, 1991 |
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| Preceded by | John Barrus |
| Succeeded by | Stan Rosenberg |
| Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 2nd Hampshire district |
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In office January 1, 1969 – January 3, 1973 |
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| Preceded by | Donald Madsen |
| Succeeded by | James Collins |
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John Walter Olver September 3, 1936 Honesdale, Pennsylvania |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Rose Olver (1959–2014) |
| Residence | Amherst, Massachusetts |
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (B.S.) Tufts University (M.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.) |
John Walter Olver (born September 3, 1936) is an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 1st congressional district from 1991 to 2013. Raised on a farm in Pennsylvania, Olver graduated from college at the age of 18 and went on to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and later taught chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for eight years.
He served in both chambers of the Massachusetts General Court, being elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1968, and the Massachusetts Senate in 1972. He ran in a 1991 special election to succeed 17-term Congressman Silvio O. Conte, who died in office. He was the first Democrat to ever represent the 1st congressional district.
Olver announced that he would not seek re-election in 2012, and retired at the end of his eleventh term in Congress after his district was dismantled in redistricting.
Olver was born on September 3, 1936 in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, the son of Helen Marguerite (née Fulleborn) and Thomas Horace Olver. His paternal grandparents were of English descent and his maternal grandparents were German. Olver grew up on his father's farm, where the two tended cows, while his mother ran a boarding house which served families from Philadelphia and New York City. Olver graduated from high school when he was 15 and enrolled in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in chemistry at the age of 18. After earning his undergraduate degree, Olver went on to earn a Master of Science in chemistry from Tufts University in 1956, and a Doctor of Philosophy in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961.
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