Henry Olin

Olin was born in Shaftsbury in the New Hampshire Grants (now Vermont) on May 7, 1768 to Justin Olin and Sally Dwinell Olin. He attended the common schools. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He moved to Leicester in the Vermont Republic in 1788 and began the practice of law.{{cite web|url= http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000068 |title= OLIN, Henry, (1768 - 1837)|publisher= Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date= November 6, 2012}}

Olin served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1799 to 1804, 1806 to 1815, 1817 to 1819 and 1822 to 1824. He was a delegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1814, 1822, and 1828.{{cite book|last=Johnson|first=Rossiter|title=The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans|year=1904|publisher=Biographical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ElIDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT134 }} He was associate judge and then chief judge of the Addison County Court from 1801 to 1824.{{cite book|title=Dictionary of the United States Congress|year=1868|publisher=T. Belknap and H.E. Goodwin|pages=290|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HF4DAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA290 }} He served as a member of the executive council in 1820 and 1821.{{cite book|last=Brown|first=John Howard|title=The Cyclopedia of American Biography V6: Comprising the Men and Women of the United States Who Have Been Identified with the Growth of the Nation|year=2006|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|pages=61|isbn=9781428640511|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TH9AEMwOuSYC&pg=PA61 }}

Olin was elected to the Eighteenth Congress as a Democratic-Republican candidate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles Rich. He served in Congress from December 13, 1824 to March 3, 1825.{{cite web|url= http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/henry_olin/408341|title= Rep. Henry Olin

|publisher=govtrack.us|access-date= November 6, 2012}} He was elected as the Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, and served from 1827 to 1830.{{cite web|url= http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10911.html|title= Henry Olin (1768–1837)|publisher= The Political Graveyard|access-date= November 6, 2012|archive-date= November 5, 2012|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121105165724/http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10911.html|url-status= dead}}

Henry Olin married Lois Richardson in 1788 and they had ten children. Following her death, he married Polly Sanford Olin and they had one child. Olin was the nephew of Gideon Olin, who also served as a United States Representative from Vermont. Gideon Olin's son, Judge Abram B. Olin, was Henry Olin's cousin.

Olin died on August 18, 1837[https://books.google.com/books?id=WwcQAAAAYAAJ&dq=henry+olin+may+1768+august+1837&pg=PA287 Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont] in Salisbury, Vermont. He is interred at Brookside Cemetery in Leicester, Vermont.

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