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Georg Jacob Bull (1 August 1785 – 12 December 1854) was a Norwegian jurist and politician born in Christiania, today Oslo. He was a stipendiary magistrate () of
Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 20 ...
from 1810 to 1821. While stationed here, he was elected to the
Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( ; ) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years based on party-list proportional represe ...
for the year 1821.Georg Jacob Bull born 1785
- Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)
Bull was then appointed County Governor of ''Jarlsbergs og Laurvigs amt'' (today named Vestfold), serving from 1821 to 1829.Norwegian Counties
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Seated in Laurvik, he was elected to the Norwegian Parliament for the year 1824, representing the constituency of ''Laurvik og Sandefjord''. In 1829, he went on to serve as County Governor of ''Søndre Bergenhus amt'' (today named Hordaland). He left in 1834. From 1834 to 1836, he served as state secretary.Secretary to the Council of State since 1814
/ref> He was then the fourth
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway The chief justice of the Supreme Court of Norway ( Norwegian , ) is the judicial leader of the Supreme Court of Norway. The following is a chronological list of chief justices since the court was established: * 1814–27: Johan Randulf Bull - ...
from 1836 to his death in 1854. Georg Jacob Bull was the father of later government minister
Anders Sandøe Ørsted Bull Anders Sandøe Ørsted Bull (13 September 1817 – 15 April 1907) was a Norwegian civil servant and government minister. He served as acting Minister of Defence (Norway), Minister of the Army in 1875 (twice), 1881 and 1884. He also served as List ...
. His wife, and Anders' mother, was Barbara Albertine Ørsted, sister of
Hans Christian Ørsted Hans Christian Ørsted (; 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851), sometimes Transliteration, transliterated as Oersted ( ), was a Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields. This phenomenon is known as ...
and
Anders Sandøe Ørsted Anders Sandøe Ørsted (21 December 1778 – 1 May 1860) was a Danish lawyer, politician and jurist. He served as the Prime Minister of Denmark in 1853–1854. Biography He studied philosophy and law at the University of Copenhagen and was ...
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1785 births 1854 deaths County governors of Norway Politicians from Bergen Vestfold politicians Chief justices of Norway Members of the Storting 1824–1826 Members of the Storting 1821–1823 {{Norway-politician-1780s-stub