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John Olver at AllExperts (443 words) |
 | John Olver is married to Rose Olver, a professor at Amherst College. |
| John Olver is the only non Roman Catholic (besides Barney Frank, who is Jewish) in the Massachusetts delegation to the U.S. Congress. |
| Olver was one of five members of Congress arrested April 28, 2006 after protesting outside the Sudanese Embassy over atrocities in the Darfur region. |
| John Olver - Congresspedia (506 words) |
| John Walter Olver has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing the First District of Massachusetts, a primarily rural district that makes up most of Western Massachusetts. |
| Olver was born September 3, 1936 in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, but has called Amherst, Massachusetts home since 1963. |
| That June, Olver, who had just been sworn in for his 10th term in the state senate, narrowly defeated Republican Steve Pierce in a special election for the 1st District Congressional seat. |
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