Glenn A. Olds (February 28, 1921 – March 11, 2006) was an American academic administrator, government official and politician. Olds was raised in Oregon and attended Willamette University.[1] Olds served as the president of Springfield College in western Massachusetts from 1958 to 1965, of Kent State University in Ohio from 1971 to 1977, and of Alaska Pacific University from 1977 to 1988. In 1986, he was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate from the state of Alaska, which he lost to incumbent Frank Murkowski. He also served as commissioner of the Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development during the second governorship of Walter Hickel in the early 1990s.
Glenn Olds | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Portrait of Olds in 1958 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 28, 1921 Sherwood, Oregon, U.S. |
| Died | March 11, 2006 (aged 85) Sherwood, Oregon, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | Willamette University (BA) Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (BDiv) Northwestern University (MA) Yale University (PhD) |
Electoral history
editBlanket primary results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Frank Murkowski | 91,705 | 63.11 | |
| Democratic | Glenn Olds | 36,995 | 25.46 | |
| Democratic | Bill Barnes | 4,871 | 3.35 | |
| Libertarian | Chuck House | 4,265 | 2.94 | |
| Democratic | Dave J. Carlson | 4,211 | 2.90 | |
| Democratic | Michael J. Bruner | 1,809 | 1.24 | |
| Democratic | Karl Francis | 1,454 | 1.00 | |
| Total votes | 145,310 | 100.00 | ||
General election results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Frank Murkowski | 97,674 | 54.02% | +0.34% | |
| Democratic | Glenn Olds | 79,727 | 44.10% | −1.84% | |
| Libertarian | Chuck House | 3,161 | 1.75% | ||
| Write-ins | 239 | 0.13% | |||
| Majority | 17,947 | 9.93% | +2.17% | ||
| Turnout | 180,801 | ||||
| Republican hold | Swing | ||||
References
edit- ^ Dobrow, Martin, "How the FBI Tried to Block Martin Luther King’s Commencement Speech, The untold story of a government plot, a maverick college president, and the most important figure of the civil rights era" Archived 2014-06-17 at the Wayback Machine, The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, Washington, District of Columbia, 14 June 2014.
- ^ "Official Results - August 26, 1986 Primary Election" (PDF). State of Alaska Division of Elections. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 25, 2016.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1986" (PDF). Clerk of the House of Representatives. p. 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 1, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
External links
edit- Martin Dobrow, "How the FBI Tried to Block Martin Luther King’s Commencement Speech", The Atlantic (June 14, 2014); extensively discussing the biography of Glenn Olds, and his involvement in this event.