Theodore Olson

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Theodore Olson (2010)

Theodore "Ted" Bevry Olson (born September 11, 1940 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American lawyer and former United States Solicitor General .

biography

The son of an engineer from United Airlines studied communications and history at the University of the Pacific in Stockton , California, where he graduated in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts ( BA Communications and History ). He then completed a post-graduate degree in law at the University of California at Berkeley in 1965 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). Since his admission to the bar , he has been a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a law firm of 800 lawyers based in Los Angeles .

Olson is a member of the Republican Party and joined the United States Department of Justice after Ronald Reagan was elected President in 1981 . There he was Assistant Attorney General ( Assistant Attorney General ) head of the Office of Legal Counsel until 1984 .

In the Bush v. Gore before the United States Supreme Court on December 12, 2000 for the result of the 2000 presidential election. He was a lawyer for George W. Bush . On June 11, 2001, President Bush made him Solicitor General. This third highest office in the US Department of Justice he held until June 2005.

Between 2009 and 2013, Olson was alongside David Boies , his opponent at the time in the Bush v. Gore, representative of the plaintiffs in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger , which discusses the introduction of same-sex marriage in California. Olson is also active in several social and political institutions and has been a board member of The American Spectator and the Washington Legal Foundation , a member of the advisory boards of the National Legal Center for the Public Interest and the Republican National Lawyers Association .

Olson is married for the fourth time. His third wife, Barbara Olson , a Conservative TV journalist, was the victim of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks . She was on American Airline Flight 77 , which was piloted into the Pentagon .

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SURNAME Olson, Theodore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olson, Theodore Bevry (full name); Olson, Ted
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and former United States Solicitor General
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois