Chauncey N. Olds | |
Order: | 8th |
Office: | Ohio Attorney General |
Term Start: | February 20, 1865 |
Term End: | January 8, 1866 |
Governor: | John Brough Charles Anderson |
Preceded: | William P. Richardson |
Succeeded: | William H. West |
State House2: | Ohio |
District2: | Pickaway County |
Term Start2: | December 4, 1848 |
Term End2: | December 2, 1849 |
Preceded2: | Thomas Huston |
Succeeded2: | M. L. Clark |
State Senate3: | Ohio |
District3: | Ross & Pickaway Counties |
Term Start3: | December 3, 1849 |
Term End3: | December 1, 1850 |
Preceded3: | new district |
Succeeded3: | Joseph H. Geiger |
Birth Date: | 2 February 1816 |
Birth Place: | Marlboro, Vermont |
Death Place: | Columbus, Ohio |
Party: | Republican |
Otherparty: | Whig |
Relations: | brother Edson B. Olds |
Alma Mater: | Miami University |
Chauncey N. Olds was a Republican politician from the state of Ohio. He was Ohio Attorney General 1865.
Chauncey Olds was born February 2, 1816, at Marlboro, Vermont, brother of Edson B. Olds.[1] He was moved to Cuyahoga County, Ohio, at age four. In 1830, the family moved to Circleville, Pickaway County.[2] He began studies at Ohio University that autumn, but quit after three years due to illness. He entered Miami University in 1834, graduated in 1836, and soon became a professor there. He resigned in 1840, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1842 in Circleville.[2] He practiced in that town until 1856, and represented the county in the Ohio House of Representatives for the 47th General Assembly, 1848–1849,[3] and the Ohio State Senate 1849–1850,[4] elected as a Whig. In 1856 he moved to Columbus, Ohio, and ran for Ohio Attorney General in the 1862 election,[2] but lost.[5]
In 1865, Attorney General William P. Richardson resigned, and Olds was appointed by Governor Brough,[6] February 20, 1865.[7] He was not nominated for the 1865 election. He was a trustee of Miami University for twenty five years. He was prominent in the Presbyterian church.[1] For the last seventeen years of his life he represented the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway in Franklin County. He died February 11, 1890, at his home in Columbus.[8]