1. Peter Graham Olson was born on December 9,1962 and is an American politician who served as the US representative for from 2009 to 2021.
25 Facts About Pete Olson
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Pete Olson's district included much of southern Houston, as well as most of the city's southwestern suburbs such as Katy, Pearland, and Sugar Land.
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On July 25,2019, Olson announced that he would retire at the end of his term.
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Peter Graham Olson was born in 1962 in Fort Lewis, Washington.
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In 1972, Pete Olson moved with his family to Seabrook, Texas, a suburb of Houston, where he attended public schools, graduating from Clear Lake High School in 1981.
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Pete Olson attended college at Rice University, where he played college basketball his freshman year; he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in computer science in 1985.
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Pete Olson subsequently attended law school at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving his JD and being admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1988.
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Pete Olson joined the United States Navy after graduating from law school and earned his Naval Aviator wings in March 1991.
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Pete Olson defeated incumbent Democratic Representative Nick Lampson in the general election on November 4,2008.
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Pete Olson won the Republican nomination by defeating former Congresswoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs in the April 8,2008, run-off election.
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An October 22,2008, poll by John Zogby and The Houston Chronicle stated that Pete Olson had a 17-point lead over Lampson.
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In 2007, Pete Olson announced he would run for the Republican nomination in the 22nd District.
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Pete Olson faced Lampson in the general election, and John Wieder, the Libertarian Party candidate.
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From July 1 to September 30,2008, Pete Olson raised more money than Lampson, $312,700 to $149,000.
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Pete Olson won re-election in 2010 with 67 percent of the vote against Democratic challenger Kesha Rogers.
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Pete Olson won his fifth term in the House in the general election held on November 8,2016.
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Pete Olson polled 181,864 votes to 123,670 for his Democratic opponent, Democrat Mark Gibson.
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Pete Olson campaigned against Democrat Sri Preston Kulkarni, a former diplomat raised in Houston whose mother's family traces their ancestry back to Sam Houston, one of the founders of Texas.
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Pete Olson opposed the current incarnation of Interstate 69, which since 2002 had been part of Governor Rick Perry's controversial Trans-Texas Corridor, and a project Phil Gramm did not provide funding for as a US Senator.
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On July 24,2013, Pete Olson voted to continue funding NSA surveillance.
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In mid-November 2013, Pete Olson led a group of 19 other Republican congressmen in an effort to impeach Attorney General Eric Holder, charging that Holder had refused to comply with a subpoena issued by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in 2011 and that he had failed to enforce laws defending the Defense of Marriage Act or mandatory minimum sentencing for low-level drug offenders.
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Pete Olson charged that Holder had failed to enforce the Controlled Substances Act by not suing Washington and Colorado for deciding to regulate rather than criminalize marijuana.
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On June 9,2017, Pete Olson stated during a radio broadcast that former President Bill Clinton had admitted to the murder of White House aide Vincent Foster and had threatened former Attorney General Loretta Lynch with similar violence if she did not drop an investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Congressman Pete Olson later told a reporter that he had misspoken when he made the claim.
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Pete Olson sponsored the Civil Rights Uniformity Act of 2016 which would strictly limit the definition of gender to the person's gender assigned at birth for the purposes of interpreting federal civil rights laws, federal administrative agency regulations, and other federal guidance.