Lewis P. Olds was an American lawyer and politician who served as North Carolina Attorney General from 1869 to 1870.
Kemp P. Battle wrote, "As there was no treasury in sight from which a salary could be drawn, Mr. Olds wisely declined [the offer of the presidency].
He represented Wake County in the North Carolina Senate in 1870-71, when he voted against removing his father-in-law from office.
The State Republican Party Convention declined to formally nominate him for the office in the 1870 elections, instead endorsing Samuel F.
[7] His second wife, Laura Haylander Olds, was committed to an insane asylum in April 1888,[8] and died on March 11, 1895.