Eilif Løvrak Holmesland (25 August 1896 – 21 March 1959) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the

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. He was born in

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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

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in 1919 and started working as an attorney in

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, where his father was district stipendiary magistrate (). In 1921 he moved to

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to work as a lawyer. He became a

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lawyer in 1928. From 1931 he had been a member of Arendal

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. He served as a deputy representative to the

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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 after the war until the Norwegian government could pick a permanent governor. Holmesland died in a car accident in

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in 1959.

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1896 births 1959 deaths Members of the Storting Liberal Party (Norway) politicians Aust-Agder politicians Politicians from Arendal Norwegian jurists County governors of Norway {{Norway-politician-1890s-stub