Peder Johan Pedersen Holmesland

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Peder Johan Pedersen Holmesland (4 January 1833 – 1 May 1914) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.

Early life and family[]

He was born in Holme in 1833 as the youngest brother of Søren Pedersen Jaabæk and Simon Pedersen Holmesland,[1] who would both sit in the Norwegian Parliament. So did his nephew Peter Karl Holmesland.

Political career[]

Peder Johan Pedersen Holmesland was himself elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1880, representing the rural constituency of Lister og Mandals Amt. He worked as a farmer there. He was re-elected in 1883, 1886 and 1889, the last time for the Moderate Liberal Party,[2] a breakaway fraction from the Liberal Party.

Personal life[]

He married a Regine Wold.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Genealogy
  2. ^ Peder Johan Pedersen Holmesland — Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)
  3. ^ Genealogy


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