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Sep 20, 1871 Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Died on 01 Jan 1953 (aged 81)
Norwegian politician
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About Jonas Pedersen
- Jonas Pedersen (20 September 1871–1953) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
- He served as the County Governor of Nordland county from 1913 until 1921 and then he was the County Governor of Aust-Agder county from 1921 until 1942. He was born in Stavanger.
- He enrolled as a law student in 1889, and graduated as cand.jur.
- in 1893.
- He moved to Northern Norway in 1895 and was acting district stipendiary magistrate (sorenskrivercode: nor promoted to code: no ) and stipendiary magistrate (fogedcode: nor promoted to code: no ). On the local political level he was a member of Vågan municipal council from 1901 to 1907, and then mayor of Vågan Municipality 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 the German 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.
