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. 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
United States Senate election in Alaska, 1986
Blanket primary results
General election results
References
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.