- Oscar Christian Gundersen
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Oscar Christian "O.C." Gundersen (born 17 March 1908 in Oslo, died 21 February 1991) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
Gundersen graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1931. During the second cabinet Gerhardsen he was appointed Minister of Justice and the Police, a post he a year into the new cabinet Torp. He left in 1952 and became a Supreme Court Justice the next year. In 1958 he left that position to become Norwegian ambassador to the Soviet Union, a post he held until 1961.
He was then appointed Minister of Trade and Shipping from 1962 to 1963 during the third cabinet Gerhardsen. In August 1963 the cabinet Lyng assumed office, but a fourth cabinet Gerhardsen returned to power a month later. Gundersen was now Minister of Justice and the Police again, a post he held until the fourth cabinet Gerhardsen fell in 1965. He worked as a Supreme Court Justice for the second time, from 1967 to 1977.
From 1970 to 1973 he chaired the committee that delivered the Norwegian Official Report 18/1974, about State Secretaries. The work led to a new §14 and an altered §62 in the Constitution of Norway, leading to State Secretaries being eligible for general election and establishing the role as political. Propositions about granting access for State Secretaries to parliamentary debates without the ability to vote, to which Gundersen agreed, failed.
References
- "Oscar Christian Gundersen" (in Norwegian). Stortinget.no. http://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=OSGU&tab=Biography.
Political offices Preceded by
Johan CappelenNorwegian Minister of Justice and the Police
1945–1952Succeeded by
Kai KnudsenPreceded by
Arne SkaugNorwegian Minister of Trade and Shipping
1962–1963Succeeded by
Kåre WillochPreceded by
Petter Mørch KorenNorwegian Minister of Justice and the Police
1963–1965Succeeded by
Elisabeth Schweigaard SelmerDiplomatic posts Preceded by
Erik BraadlandNorwegian ambassador to the Soviet Union
1958–1961Succeeded by
Frithjof JacobsenCategories:- 1908 births
- 1991 deaths
- Government ministers of Norway
- Labour Party (Norway) politicians
- Supreme Court Justices of Norway
- Ambassadors of Norway
- Trondheim politicians
- Norwegian politician, 1900s birth stubs
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