Oliver Samuel Powell (June 19, 1830 – September 26, 1888) was an American farmer, miller and merchant from River Falls, Wisconsin who spent three consecutive one-year terms as a state legislator.
On September 23, 1860, Powell married L(ydia) Elmira Nichols, a native of Braintree, Vermont.
[2] He was first elected to the Assembly in 1869 as a Republican without opposition, and was assigned to the standing committee on railroads.
[3] He was re-elected in 1870, with 902 votes to 413 for Democrat Joel Foster (who had been the first white settler in what was now Pierce County); and was assigned to the committees on privileges and elections; and on swamps and overflowed lands.
[4] He was re-elected again in 1871, receiving 1,133 votes against 609 for Thomas Carney, one of five "people's candidates" running in that election, and was assigned to the committee on ways and means.