Eilif Løvrak Holmesland

Eilif Løvrak Holmesland (25 August 1896 - ????) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Liberal Party.

He was born in Kristiania as the son of Peter Karl Holmesland and grandson of Simon Pedersen Holmesland, both former parliament members. He enrolled as a student in 1914, graduated as cand.jur. in 1919 and started working as an attorney in Gjerpen, [http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=polsys&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=11303 Eilif Løvrak Holmesland] — Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) ] where his father was district stipendiary magistrate ("sorenskriver"). [ [http://www.porsgrunn.folkebibl.no/bok/porsgrunn-1957/b2/ph-16d.html Næringslivet frem til 1. verdenskrig] , in volume two of "Porsgrunns historie", by Joh. N. Tønnessen. Hosted by Porsgrunn public library.] In 1921 he moved to Arendal to work as a lawyer. He became a Supreme Court lawyer in 1928.b]

From 1931 he had been a member of Arendal city council. He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament during the term 1934–1936, representing the Market towns of Telemark and Aust-Agder counties. He met in parliamentary sessions whenever regular member Anton Alexander was unable to show. From 8 May 1945 to 1 December 1945 he was acting County Governor of Aust-Agder.b]

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