Glenn Olds

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
Personal details
Born	(1921-02-28)February 28, 1921 Sherwood, Oregon, U.S.
Died	March 11, 2006(2006-03-11) (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

• United States Senate election in Alaska, 1986

Blanket primary results

Blanket primary results[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Frank Murkowski (inc.)	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

United States Senate election in Alaska, 1986[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Republican	Frank Murkowski (inc.)	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

1. 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.
2. http://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/86PRIM/86prim.pdf
3. http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1986election.pdf

External links

• 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.

Party political offices
Preceded by Clark Gruening	Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from Alaska (Class 3) 1986	Succeeded by Tony Smith