- Jonas Pedersen
Jonas Pedersen (
20 September 1871 - 1953) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.He was born in
Stavanger . He enrolled as a law student in 1889, and graduated ascand.jur. in 1893. He moved to Northern Norway in 1895 and was acting district stipendiary magistrate ("sorenskriver") andstipendiary magistrate ("foged").On the local political level he was a member of
Vågan municipal council from 1901 to 1907, and then mayor from 1910 to 1913. From 1913 to 1921 he was County Governor of Nordland. He was acting County Governor from 1913, but formally appointed in 1916. In November 1921 he was appointed County Governor of Aust-Agder, assuming the position in March 1922. He left in January 1942, during theGerman occupation of Norway .He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1928 from the
Market towns of Telemark and Aust-Agder counties . He sat only one term, but he had been deputy representative from 1913 to 1915. [http://samfunnsveven.no/TT/U5.cfm?Utside=&Uttaksnummer=5&person=12327 Jonas Pedersen] — Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) ]References
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