Richard Olney II
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- For the former U.S. Secretary of State and Attorney General, see Richard Olney.
Richard Olney (1871-1939) was a Member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1915 to 1921.
He was born in Milton, New Hampshire, January 5, 1871; attended the public schools and Leicester Academy; graduated from Brown University in 1892; wool merchant; member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1902; chairman of selectmen of Leicester in 1902 and 1903; unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1903; member of the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission in 1911; delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in 1912; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1915 - March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; appointed a member of the World War Foreign Debt Commission in February 1923 and reappointed by President Calvin Coolidge in 1925; chairman of the Massachusetts parole board 1932-1937; chairman of the Massachusetts Commission of the Necessaries of Life from 1938 until his death at Boston, Massachusetts, on January 15, 1939; interment in Cherry Valley Cemetery, Leicester, Massachusetts.
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- Eggert, Gerald G. “Richard Olney and the Income Tax Cases.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 48 (June 1961): 24-41
- James, Henry. Richard Olney and his Public Service. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923.
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| Preceded by Edward Gilmore |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 14th congressional district March 4, 1915 - March 3, 1921 |
Succeeded by Louis A. Frothingham |
