Alec Gehard Olson (born September 11, 1930) is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota. He was born in Mamre Township, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. Olson attended public schools and graduated from Willmar High School in 1948. He engaged in farming between 1948 and 1955 and was employed as an insurance representative from 1955 to 1962. He was active in the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party from 1952 to 1962, and served as district chairman for four years.

PropertyValue
dbpedia-owl:Person/birthDate
  • 1930-09-11 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:Person/birthPlace
dbpedia-owl:Person/party
dbpedia-owl:birthDate
  • 1930-09-11 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:birthPlace
dbpedia-owl:party
dbpprop:abstract
  • Alec Gehard Olson (born September 11, 1930) is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota. He was born in Mamre Township, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. Olson attended public schools and graduated from Willmar High School in 1948. He engaged in farming between 1948 and 1955 and was employed as an insurance representative from 1955 to 1962. He was active in the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party from 1952 to 1962, and served as district chairman for four years. Olson was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1960, 1964, and 1968. Olson served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 88th and 89th congresses, (January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1967). He lost his bid for re-election in 1966. He served in the Minnesota Senate from 1969 to 1976. He was elected president of the state senate in 1973. When Wendell Anderson resigned the governorship to become a U.S. Senator in 1976, Olson became the lieutenant governor; he served from December 29, 1976 to January 3, 1979 and was Rudy Perpich's running mate in Minnesota's 1978 race for governor.
dbpprop:birthDate
dbpprop:birthPlace
dbpprop:footnotes
  • From statehood until 1973, the Lt. Governor served as Senate President. Starting in 1973, Senate presidents were selected from the body.
dbpprop:governor
dbpprop:hasPhotoCollection
dbpprop:name
  • Alec Olson
dbpprop:office
  • Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota
  • President of the Minnesota Senate
dbpprop:order
  • 1
  • 40
dbpprop:party
dbpprop:predecessor
dbpprop:profession
  • insurance representative, farmer
dbpprop:reference
dbpprop:relatedInstance
dbpprop:successor
dbpprop:termEnd
  • January 3, 1979
dbpprop:termStart
dbpprop:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbpprop:wordnet_type
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Alec Gehard Olson (born September 11, 1930) is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota. He was born in Mamre Township, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. Olson attended public schools and graduated from Willmar High School in 1948. He engaged in farming between 1948 and 1955 and was employed as an insurance representative from 1955 to 1962. He was active in the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party from 1952 to 1962, and served as district chairman for four years.
rdfs:label
  • Alec G. Olson
owl:sameAs
skos:subject
foaf:name
  • Alec Olson
foaf:page
is dbpprop:after of
is dbpprop:before of
is dbpprop:lieutenant of
is dbpprop:predecessor of
is dbpprop:redirect of
is owl:sameAs of