Glenn Olds

Glenn Olds
Glenn Olds
	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)

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.

Electoral history

Blanket primary results^[2]
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

United States Senate election in Alaska, 1986^[3]
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

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