James R. Olin

A Representative from Virginia. Born in Chicago, Ill. , February 28, 1920. Graduated from Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, Calif. , 1941. Received B. E. E. Degree, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. , 1943. United States Army Signal Corps, World War II, 1943-1946. Elected supervisor Town of Rotherdam, N. Y. , and country board of supervisors, Schenectady County, N. Y. , 1953. Employed for 35 years by General Electric Co. , until retirement January 1982, after serving as corporate vice president and general manager, industrial electronics division. Elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1993). Was not a candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Third Congress in 1992. Died on July 29, 2006, in Charlottesville, Va.