Chauncey N. Olds

Chauncey N. Olds was a Republican politician from the state of Ohio. He was Ohio Attorney General 1865.

Chauncey Olds was born February 2, 1816 at Marlboro, Vermont, brother of Edson B. Olds. He was moved to Cuyahoga County, Ohio at age four. In 1830, the family moved to Circleville, Pickaway County. He began studies at Ohio University that autumn, but quit after three years due to illness. He entered Miami University in 1834, graduated in 1836, and soon became a professor there. He resigned in 1840, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1842 in Circleville. He practiced in that town until 1856, and represented the county in the Ohio House of Representatives for the 47th General Assembly, 1848–1849, and the Ohio State Senate 1849-1850, elected as a Whig. In 1856 he moved to Columbus, Ohio, and ran for Ohio Attorney General in the 1862 election, but lost.

In 1865, Attorney General William P. Richardson resigned, and Olds was appointed by Governor Brough, February 20, 1865. He was not nominated for the 1865 election. He was a trustee of Miami University for twenty five years. He was prominent in the Presbyterian church. For the last seventeen years of his life he represented the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway in Franklin County. He died February 11, 1890 at his home in Columbus.