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Alice Olson

American politician (1928–2010)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ134542354 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alice Adele Sandgren Olson (May 24, 1928 – February 21, 2010) was a longtime member of the North Dakota House of Representatives. At her retirement in 1998, she was the second most senior member of that body, behind LeRoy Hausauer.

Editorial summary

“Alice Olson” enters the record as american politician (1928–2010). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alice, Olson and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928, 2010, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1928-05-24. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alice, Olson and American.
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Why this record matters

“Alice Olson” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Alice, Olson and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q134542354. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1928, 2010 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alice Olson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.