Olin Wellborn
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Olin Wellborn (June 18, 1843 – December 6, 1921) was an American politician. He served in the House of Representative from Texas.
Born in Cumming, Georgia, Wellborn attended the common schools, Emory College, Oxford, Georgia, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He enlisted in the Confederate States Army in 1861 and served throughout the Confederate War, attaining the rank of captain in Company B, Fourth Georgia Cavalry.
At the close of the war, he settled in Atlanta. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced the practice of law in Atlanta.
In 1871, he moved to Dallas, Texas, and continued the practice of his profession.
Wellborn was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1887). He served as chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress.
He moved to San Diego, California, in 1887, and continued the practice of his profession for six years. He moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1893. He was appointed by President Cleveland as United States judge of the southern district of California in 1895, which office he held until January 20, 1915, when he retired.
Olin Wellborn died at age 58 in Los Angeles. He is interred in Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery.
