Peder Johan Pedersen Holmesland
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]
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