Gen Olson was born on May 20,1938 and is a retired teacher and Republican politician who is a former member of the Minnesota Senate representing portions of Hennepin and Wright counties in the western Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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Gen Olson was the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota in the 1998 Minnesota gubernatorial election and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination in the 1994 United States Senate election in Minnesota.
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Gen Olson was first elected to the Senate in 1982, and was re-elected in all the way until her retirement 2010.
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Gen Olson served as an assistant minority leader from 1989 to 1990 and president pro tempore from 2011 until 2013.
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Gen Olson was a teacher at Annandale High School in Annandale and Osseo High School in Osseo from 1959 to 1966.
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Gen Olson ran for the Republican endorsement for the US Senate in 1994, but lost the nomination to future senator Rod Grams at the party's state convention.
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Gen Olson was later Senator Norm Coleman's running mate when he ran for governor in 1998.
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Gen Olson was a member of the Minnesota Statehood Sesquicentennial Commission from 2006 to 2008.
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Gen Olson served on the Senate's Education Committee, the Environment and Natural Resources Committee, the Finance Committee, the Rules and Administration Committee, and the Transportation Committee.
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Gen Olson served on the Finance subcommittees for the E-12 Education Budget and Policy Division, for the Transportation Budget and Policy Division, and for the Transportation Budget and Policy Division-Transit Subdivision, and on the Rules and Administration Subcommittee for Committees.