Peder Jacobsen Bøgvald

Peder Jacobsen Bøgvald (1762 - 1829) was a Norwegian politician.

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament for its first session in 1814, and was re-elected in 1815. He represented the rural constituency of "Lister og Mandals Amt" (today named Vest-Agder). [http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=storting&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=10509 Peder Jacobsen Bøgvald] — Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) ]

Hailing from Feda in Kvinesdal, he had left the district at a young age to work at sea. Many years later he returned to Feda, having worked himself upwards as a shipmaster in the Netherlands. [http://www.firedragon.com/~kap/Bygdeboker/KvKronNo.rtf En Krønike om Kvinesdal] , by Ludvig Daae.]

He died in 1829.b.]

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