Theodore Olson

Theodore Bevry Olson (September 11, 1940 – November 13, 2024) was an American lawyer. Olson served as United States Solicitor General under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2004. He was known for defending same sex marriage and undocumented immigrant children during his legal career. Some of the cases he defended were for liberal causes, despite being a Republican.

In March 2018, Olson turned down an offer to represent Donald Trump in the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-legal-team-seeks-to-add-gravitas-with-offer-to-star-gop-attorney-theodore-b-olson/2018/03/20/571f1e46-2c41-11e8-8ad6-fbc50284fce8_story.html

Olson's third wife, Barbara Kay Olson (née Bracher), an attorney and conservative commentator, was a passenger on the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. She planned to leave to California on after celebrating Olson's birthday

Olson died at a hospital from a stroke in Fairfax, Virginia, on November 13, 2024, at the age of 84.

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