succeeded nationality party state_house term_start residence article_title term_end name
michael v. saxl american democratic maine 1986 west end , portland , maine james v. oliver
 1994 james v. oliver
james v. oliver

james ` jim ' v. oliver is an american politician from maine .
oliver represented portland , maine in the maine house of representatives from 1986 to 1994 , when he accepted a country director position with the peace corps .
he was replaced in a special election by michael v. saxl .
from 1967 - 1994 , oliver served as executive director of the portland west neighborhood planning council .
in 1994 , oliver resigned his position with pirtland west to accept a position overseas as a peace corps country director for two south american countries : suriname and guyana .
in may of 1986 , as executive director of portland west , oliver was involved in the successful referendum prohibiting further development on portland 's working waterfront .
in 1988 , oliver was one of 7 portland residents arrested while protesting the demolition of a nineteenth century building on park street in the west end .
the historic building was demolished shortly after their arrests .
not long afterwards , the portland city council voted to strengthen the law protecting historic buildings from demolition by stipulating demolition was only allowed to occur if a historic building is beyond repair or dangerous to the public . .
