Kammala wannan jumla: Olson ya halarci makarantun jama'a kuma ya sauke karatu daga makarantar sakandaren Willmar a shekarar 1948. Ya yi noma tsakanin 1948 zuwa 1955, kuma ya kasance wakilin inshora daga 1955 zuwa 1962. Ya kasance mai aiki a Jam'iyyar Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor daga 1952 zuwa 1962, yana aiki a matsayin shugaban gundumar shekaru hudu. Ya kasance wakili ne ga Babban Taron Demokradiyya a 1960, 1964 da
A shekara ta 1968.