William Milo Olin (September 18, 1845 – April 15, 1911) was an American journalist and politician who served as the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth. Olin was born in Warrenton, Georgia to parents from Massachusetts, and in 1850 his family moved back to Massachusetts, where he attended school in Worcester and

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. Enlisting in the

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in 1862 during the American Civil War, he eventually rose through the ranks to

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, assistant adjutant general, and Adjutant General. After the American Civil Was Olin went to work for ''The

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''. In the fourteen years Olin worked for the '' Advertiser'' he was, in succession, a reporter, editor and Washington, D.C. correspondent of that newspaper. He was later a private secretary to Massachusetts Governors Thomas Talbot and John Davis Long and

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. A Republican, he served as Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth from 1892 until he died in Boston on April 15, 1911. At the time of his death, he was chief of staff of the National Grand Army of the Republic.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Olin, William M. 1845 births 1911 deaths Secretaries of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Politicians from Boston People from Warrenton, Georgia Massachusetts Republicans Boston Daily Advertiser people 19th-century American politicians Grand Army of the Republic officials