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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Jim Olin</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:James_R._Olin_1983_pictorial.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/James_R._Olin_1983_pictorial.jpg/220px-James_R._Olin_1983_pictorial.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/James_R._Olin_1983_pictorial.jpg/330px-James_R._Olin_1983_pictorial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/James_R._Olin_1983_pictorial.jpg/440px-James_R._Olin_1983_pictorial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1185" 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style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/M._Caldwell_Butler" title="M. Caldwell Butler">M. Caldwell Butler</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bob_Goodlatte" title="Bob Goodlatte">Bob Goodlatte</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">James Randolph Olin</div><br />February 28, 1920<br /><a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">July 29, 2006<span style="display:none">(2006-07-29)</span> (aged 86)<br /><a href="/wiki/Charlottesville,_Virginia" title="Charlottesville, Virginia">Charlottesville, Virginia</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Phyllis Avery</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">5</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Deep_Springs_College" title="Deep Springs College">Deep Springs College</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Engineering" title="Bachelor of Engineering">BEng</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data">Businessman</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Military service</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Branch/service</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1943–1946</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Unit</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Signal_Corps_(United_States_Army)" class="mw-redirect" title="Signal Corps (United States Army)">Signal Corps</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Battles/wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>James Randolph Olin</b> (February 28, 1920 – July 29, 2006) was an American politician from the <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>. From 1983 to 1993, Olin, a <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrat</a>, served in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a> for <a href="/wiki/Virginia%27s_6th_congressional_district" title="Virginia's 6th congressional district">Virginia's 6th congressional district</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Olin&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Olin was born in <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>, the grandson of <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Swedish</a> immigrants, and raised in <a href="/wiki/Kenilworth,_Illinois" title="Kenilworth, Illinois">Kenilworth, Illinois</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wapo_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wapo-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He attended <a href="/wiki/Deep_Springs_College" title="Deep Springs College">Deep Springs College</a>, before moving on to <a href="/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a>, from which he earned an <a href="/wiki/Electrical_engineering" title="Electrical engineering">electrical engineering</a> degree in 1943. Then, until 1946, Olin served in the <a href="/wiki/Signal_Corps_(United_States_Army)" class="mw-redirect" title="Signal Corps (United States Army)">Signal Corps</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Congressbio_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Congressbio-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Olin&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Olin, a <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrat</a>, made his first bid for political office in 1953, when he became <a href="/wiki/Rotterdam,_New_York" title="Rotterdam, New York">Rotterdam, New York</a> supervisor and served on the <a href="/wiki/Schenectady_County,_New_York" title="Schenectady County, New York">Schenectady County</a> board of supervisors. For 35 years until retiring in January 1982, Olin worked in <a href="/wiki/General_Electric" title="General Electric">General Electric</a> (GE) as corporate vice president and general manager of industrial electronics.<sup id="cite_ref-Congressbio_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Congressbio-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over the years, Olin's job at GE took him to Schenectady, <a href="/wiki/Erie,_Pennsylvania" title="Erie, Pennsylvania">Erie, Pennsylvania</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Salem,_Virginia" title="Salem, Virginia">Salem, Virginia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1982, Olin was elected to represent the <a href="/wiki/Virginia%27s_6th_congressional_district" title="Virginia's 6th congressional district">6th district</a> of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first Democrat to hold this seat since 1953. The 6th, stretching from Roanoke through the <a href="/wiki/Shenandoah_Valley" title="Shenandoah Valley">Shenandoah Valley</a>, had been one of the first areas of Virginia to turn Republican. The district's six-term Republican incumbent, <a href="/wiki/M._Caldwell_Butler" title="M. Caldwell Butler">M. Caldwell Butler</a>, hadn't even faced major-party opposition since 1974. However, Olin won a narrow victory. </p><p>Over the next two years, Olin worked this vast district well, and held onto his seat in 1984 even as <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> carried the district in a landslide. He would never face another close race again, easily defeating Republican challengers in 1986 and 1988 and only facing an independent in 1990. </p><p>While in the House, Olin was considered to be a moderate member of the state's delegation. In 1990, he was one of the only three Democrats in the House to vote against <a href="/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990" title="Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990">Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That same year, he clashed with President <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a> over his budget proposals. As a member of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Agriculture" title="United States House Committee on Agriculture">United States House Committee on Agriculture</a>, Olin advocated reducing milk price subsidies. In 1991, he opposed the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Persian Gulf War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Olin did not run for a sixth term in 1992. That same year he received an honorary <a href="/wiki/Legum_Doctor" title="Legum Doctor">LLD</a> from <a href="/wiki/Washington_and_Lee_University" title="Washington and Lee University">Washington and Lee University</a>. His preferred choice to replace him as the Democratic nominee lost at the district convention to Stephen Musselwhite, who was then handily defeated by Republican <a href="/wiki/Bob_Goodlatte" title="Bob Goodlatte">Bob Goodlatte</a>, a former aide to Butler. Proving just how Republican this district was, no Democrat has crossed the 40 percent mark in the district since Olin left office. </p><p>He died at age 86 in <a href="/wiki/Charlottesville,_Virginia" title="Charlottesville, Virginia">Charlottesville, Virginia</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Electoral_history">Electoral history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Olin&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Electoral history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1982: elected to the U.S. House of Representatives with 51% of the vote, defeating Republican Kevin Grey Miller</li> <li>1984: re-elected with 54% of the vote, defeating Republican <a href="/wiki/Ray_L._Garland" title="Ray L. Garland">Ray L. Garland</a></li> <li>1986: re-elected with 70% of the vote, defeating Republican Flo Neher Traywick</li> <li>1988: re-elected with 64% of the vote, defeating Republican Charles E. Judd</li> <li>1990: re-elected with 84% of the vote, defeating Independent Gerald E. Berg</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Olin&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Olin married Phyllis Olin and had five children with her: Richard, Thomas, Kathy (Milliken), James, and Trina (Santry). The Olin family settled in <a href="/wiki/Roanoke,_Virginia" title="Roanoke, Virginia">Roanoke, Virginia</a> in 1968 and relocated to <a href="/wiki/Charlottesville,_Virginia" title="Charlottesville, Virginia">Charlottesville, Virginia</a> in 2003. Jim and Phyllis Olin had eleven grandchildren: Jennifer Milliken Bartlett, Marc Dentico-Olin, Scott Milliken, Julia Milliken, John Olin, Chad Olin, Christine Milliken, Hannah Olin, Arthur Santry IV, Alexa Santry, and Richard Santry. They also had two great-grandsons: Aidan Bartlett and Nathan Bartlett as of 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-wapo_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wapo-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-obit_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Olin&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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Warner</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Paul_Trible" title="Paul Trible">P. Trible</a> (R)</li></ul> </div></div> </td> <td style="padding-left:4px" class="nowraplinks"><div style="text-indent: -1.6em; margin-left: 1.6em;"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_from_Virginia" title="List of United States representatives from Virginia">House</a>:</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Dan_Daniel_(politician)" title="Dan Daniel (politician)">D. Daniel</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/G._William_Whitehurst" title="G. William Whitehurst">G. W. Whitehurst</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/J._Kenneth_Robinson" title="J. Kenneth Robinson">J. K. Robinson</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Stanford_Parris" title="Stanford Parris">S. Parris</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Thomas_J._Bliley_Jr." title="Thomas J. Bliley Jr.">T. Bliley</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Frank_Wolf_(politician)" title="Frank Wolf (politician)">F. Wolf</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Herbert_H._Bateman" class="mw-redirect" title="Herbert H. Bateman">H. Bateman</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Rick_Boucher" title="Rick Boucher">R. Boucher</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a class="mw-selflink selflink">J. Olin</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Norman_Sisisky" title="Norman Sisisky">N. 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Wolf</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Herbert_H._Bateman" class="mw-redirect" title="Herbert H. Bateman">H. Bateman</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Rick_Boucher" title="Rick Boucher">R. Boucher</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a class="mw-selflink selflink">J. Olin</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Norman_Sisisky" title="Norman Sisisky">N. Sisisky</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/D._French_Slaughter_Jr." title="D. French Slaughter Jr.">D. F. Slaughter</a> (R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Owen_B._Pickett" title="Owen B. Pickett">O. Pickett</a> (D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Lewis_F._Payne_Jr." title="Lewis F. Payne Jr."><i>L. 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