Paul Andreas Jetmundsen Aklestad

Paul Andreas Jetmundsen Aklestad (18 December 1837 - 1924) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.

Born in Hjørundfjord, he was a member of Hjørundfjord municipal council from 1866 to 1910. He served as mayor for thirty years, although the exact years are unknown. For an unknown peroid he was a member of the county committee, a forerunner of the county council. [http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=storting&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=10078 Paul Andreas Jetmundsen Aklestad] — Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) ] He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from the constituency Romsdals Amt in 1889, and was re-elected on six consecutive occasions.b]

He worked as a teacher from 1854 to 1861, and then as a farmer in Hjørundfjord. He was also director of the local savings bank, municipal treasurer and county auditor.c]

In June 1861 he married Berte Johanne Olsdatter Skylstad (1840-1922), who hailed from a nearby farm in Hjørundfjord. They got several children. [ [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bettans/Database/AarsethKvistad%20/gp850.html#head4 Genealogy] ]

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