Olaf Amundsen | |
Birth Date: | 13 May 1876 |
Birth Place: | Tromsø, Troms, Sweden-Norway |
Death Place: | Norway |
Nationality: | Norwegian |
Party: | Liberal |
Profession: | Politician |
Office: | County Governor of Nordland |
Term Start: | 24 August 1922 |
Term End: | 12 December 1939 |
Primeminister: | Otto Blehr Otto B. Halvorsen Abraham Berge J. L. Mowinckel Christopher Hornsrud Peder Kolstad Jens Hundseid Johan Nygaardsvold |
Predecessor: | Jonas Pedersen |
Successor: | Karl Hess Larsen |
Office2: | Minister of Justice |
Term Start2: | 22 June 1921 |
Term End2: | 24 August 1922 |
Predecessor2: | Otto B. Halvorsen |
Successor2: | Arnold Holmboe |
Primeminister2: | Otto Blehr |
Olaf Amundsen (13 May 1876 - 12 December 1939) was a Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Liberal Party.
Amundsen was elected to the Parliament of Norway for the parliamentary terms 1910-1912 and 1913–1918. From 1918–1921, he was a Norwegian: Sorenskriver, the leader of the Fosen District Court in Trøndelag. He then became the Minister of Justice in the second government of Otto Blehr. The government was in office from 1921 to 1923, but Amundsen resigned from his post on 24 August 1922 when he was named County Governor of Nordland County. He held the governorship until his death in 1939.[1] [2] [3]