James C. Oliver, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJames C. Oliver
American politician
Date of Birth: 06-Aug-1895
Place of Birth: South Portland, Maine, United States
Date of Death: 25-Dec-1986
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About James C. Oliver
- James Churchill Oliver (August 6, 1895 – December 25, 1986) was a U.S.
- Representative from Maine. Born in South Portland, Maine, Oliver attended the public schools and Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, receiving an A.B.
- degree in 1917.
- He enlisted in the United States Army on June 4, 1917, attended the Plattsburg Barracks Training Camp, and was commissioned a captain on November 27, 1917.
- He was promoted to major of Infantry on October 9, 1918, and transferred to the Inspector General's Department until honorably discharged on July 22, 1919.
- He engaged in the general insurance business in Portland, Maine from 1930 to 1937.
- He served as member of the board of aldermen of South Portland, Maine, in 1932 and 1933. Oliver was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-seventh Congresses (January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1943).
- He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942.
- He served as lieutenant commander in the United States Coast Guard from January 26, 1943, to April 23, 1946.
- In 1946 he engaged in the real estate and insurance business in Maine and California.
- He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor in 1952.
- He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Congress in 1954 and 1956.
- He unsuccessfully contested the election of Robert Hale to the Eighty-fifth Congress in 1956. Oliver was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth Congress (January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1961). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress.
- He served as delegate to the 1960 Democratic National Convention. He was a real estate developer in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
- He moved to Orlando, Florida, where he died December 25, 1986.
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