Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te haerenga tuatahi o Olesen ki te ao tōrangapū i tua atu i ana kaupapa korero i tae mai i te Pipiri 1920 i te wa i riro ai ia hei karere ki te
Te Huihuinga ā-Motu o te Pirihimana. Na, i te tau 1922, i pootihia ia e te huihuinga a te Manapori o Minnesota hei kaitono mo te United States Senate me te neke atu i te 47 ōrau o te pooti, ka noho ko ia te wahine tuatahi i tohua mo te tūranga e tetahi roopu nui i tetahi kawanatanga. Ko ana kaiwhakataetae mo te kowhiringa pooti whanui ko Henrik Shipstead, i tohua e te roopu Farmer-Labor me Frank B. Kellogg, te Republican o te wa nei. Ahakoa te kaha o te pakanga, i wikitoria a Shipstead i te pooti me Kellogg i te tuarua me Olesen i te tuatoru.