U.S. Representative John Olver

A Massachusetts political institution has died. In today’s Congressional Corner, Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern, a Democrat from the second district, speaks with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

Olver spent more than four decades in politics, starting in the Massachusetts State House and ending up in Washington, D.C.

A former U.S. Congressman from western Massachusetts will be honored at the University of Massachusetts Amherst commencement ceremony in May.John Olver…