Jonas Pedersen (20 September 1871–1953) was a Norwegian

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for the

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. He served as the County Governor of

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county from 1913 until 1921 and then he was the County Governor of

Aust-Agder Aust-Agder (, ) was a county (''fylke'') in Norway from 1 January 1919 to 31 December 2019, after it was merged with Vest-Agder to form Agder county. In 2002, there were 102,945 inhabitants, which was 2.2% of Norway's population. Its area was . ...

county from 1921 until 1942. He was born in

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. He enrolled as a law student in 1889, and graduated as

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in 1893. He moved to Northern Norway in 1895 and was acting district stipendiary magistrate () and

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(). On the local political level he was a member of the

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for

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from 1901 to 1907, and then mayor of

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

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. He was elected to the

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in 1928 from the

Market towns of Telemark and Aust-Agder counties The Market towns of Telemark and Aust-Agder counties () was an electoral district for parliamentary elections in Norway. It comprised the market towns () of Brevik, Kragerø, Notodden, Porsgrunn and Skien in Telemark county and Arendal, Grimstad a ...

. He sat only one term, but he had been deputy representative from 1913 to 1915.Jonas Pedersen
— Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)

References

1871 births 1953 deaths Politicians from Stavanger Liberal Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting 1928–1930 County governors of Norway Mayors of places in Nordland Norwegian jurists {{Norway-politician-1870s-stub